A profound, transformative experience, and one of the best parts will be having dozens, hundreds and thousands more people seeing our Earth like this, realizing its very unique existence.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, everyone at
@virgingalactic
!
"One thing is clear: what you see with your own eyes is beyond what any camera can capture. I believe this experience has forever changed how I look at our planet." - Astronaut 017, Ron Rosano (
@ronrosano
)
#Galactic04
As
@Astro_Wheels
says and
@StationCDRKelly
quotes in his fabulous book Infinite Wonder, from the enlightening vantage point of orbit, "the Earth never disappoints"
Hear hear!
Check the brand new
@USDOT
issued Astronaut Wings that
@VirginGalactic
pilots
@Stuck4ger
and CJ Sturckow are now sporting! It's been 14+ years since these were handed out.
Congrats all 🚀🚀
You've got to have a dream.
Well said here
@trevorbmbagency
:
And supremely well done staying with your dream, a pleasure of a lifetime to be at your side fulfilling it.
@virgingalactic
#Galactic04
.
@Virgingalactic
and
@Blueorigin
just flew 10 people into space - how are the two different, what was the experience like, and what's next?
Join me Thursday 22nd at 6:00 PDT for a
@VirginGalactic
Future Astronaut perspective and Q&A!
@virgingalactic
Yes absolutely! For one, the thinness of the atmosphere, keeping everything alive within it, is shockingly thin - that thin, thin blue line.
We're all crew on
#SpaceshipEarth
#Galactic04
Meet Dubai-based
@namirasalim
,
#Pakistani
's first female
#astronaut
, set to make history on October 5 with an extraordinary journey into space.
Discover her remarkable achievements, including the prestigious 'Tamgha-e-Imtiaz', Pakistan's highest civilian award, and her role in
“It was great to see our beautiful spaceship back in the air and to share the moment with the talented team who are taking us, step by step, to space”
@richardbranson
THANK YOU
@virgingalactic
and Chief Pilot Dave MacKay for a shot at flying
#VSS_Unity
#SpaceShipTwo
in the simulator! A fine flying machine, absolutely!
No prob for Dave to recover from my sketchy flying...
Astronaut count 2024
#1
:
@virgingalactic
plans to fly 36 people into space next year (3 per flight once/month),
@blueorigin
aims for the same (6 per flight bi-monthly); expect ~*72* new suborbital
#astronauts
next year!
1/2
50 years ago, these unplanned and life-changing images sat unprocessed in the
#Apollo8
CM; what unexpected revelations will
@VirginGalactic
and
@BlueOrigin
astronauts return home with after 1st trips to space in 2019?