Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. announced a new contract with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences to fly three research astronauts as part of a future crew aboard the Company’s Delta Class spaceship.
It will be the second research mission that IIAS has conducted with Virgin Galactic. It follows ‘Galactic 05’ in November 2023, which tested novel healthcare technologies and examined how fluids behaved in low gravity to help inform designs for future medical technologies and life-support systems. The mission is anticipated to take place within the first year of Delta commercial service, which remains on track to commence in 2026.
Congratulations @shawnapandya one of the keynote speakers at the NASA Genelab AWG Workshop this year. Looking forward to more science and more human centric data.
