Virgin Galactic’s suborbital space travel company will carry out “Galactic 04” on October 6th, the company’s fifth spaceflight this year and ninth spaceflight to date. Runway departure time scheduled for 9:00am Mountain Daylight Time.
Onboard, the three private astronauts are:
Astronaut 017 – Ron Rosano from the United States.
Astronaut 018 – Trevor Beattie from the United Kingdom.
Astronaut 019 – Namira Salim from Pakistan, marking first person to fly to space from this country.

Virgin Galactic’s regular cadence of commercial suborbital travel. Shown is SpaceShipTwo zipping skyward over New Mexico’s Spaceport America.
Image credit: Virgin Galactic
For flight updates from Spaceport America in New Mexico, stay tuned to Virgin Galactic’s social channels at:
https://www.virgingalactic.com/
https://twitter.com/VirginGalactic
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