Virgin Galactic Flies Private Researcher

Irene Klotz November 02, 2023
Credit: Virgin Galactic
In a preview to planned NASA-sponsored payload specialists’ flights aboard commercial suborbital vehicles, the Southwest Research Institute’s (SwRI) Alan Stern and two other paying passengers joined a Virgin Galactic crew for a short suborbital hop on Nov. 2, marking the company’s fifth commercial...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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