News Virgin Galactic-Successful First Glide Flight Test for VSS Unity

[Nicholas Kang]

VSS Unity, gliding home. From today's successful test flight.

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Official News Update:http://www.virgingalactic.com/update-from-mojave-successful-first-glide-flight-test-for-vss-unity/

Today, VSS Unity was piloted by Mark Stucky and Dave Mackay, with pilots Mike Masucci and Todd Ericsson as well as flight test engineer Dustin Mosher in WhiteKnightTwo. Over the course of the 1 hour 20 minute flight–particularly the 10 minutes of free flight for SpaceShipTwo–our pilots, mission controllers, and ground crew collected valuable data.

Today’s test flight was the fifth flight of VSS Unity (and the 218th flight of WhiteKnightTwo), following several recent Captive Carry flights.