Virgin Galactic

This astronaut crossed the NASA Space Line (80 km), which is the minimum altitude at which NASA considers a person to have flown in outer space.

Crossed 80km Line

Lt. Col. Angelo Landolfi, Physician, Italian Air Force. Lt. Col. Landolfi will conduct tests measuring cognitive performance in microgravity. In addition, he will activate syringe payloads from his seat to investigate how certain liquids and solids mix in microgravity. Caption courtesy of Virgin Galactic.

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Virgin Galactic will launch a crew of four to suborbital space from New Mexico on the VSS Unity, a rocket-powered spaceplane.

SpaceShipTwo is designed for suborbital tourism flights to space. Owned by Virgin Orbit, the SpaceShipTwo has so far climbed above the U.S. border to space of 80 km but not over the 100 km internationally-recognized point where space begins.

SpaceShipTwo

Angelo Landolfi

Italy

This astronaut is in the top 5% for number of missions.

Frequent Flyer

United States of America

Unity 22

Unity 22 was Virgin Galactic's first fully crewed suborbital mission.

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Galactic 03

Galactic 06

Ukraine

Austria

Unity 25

VSS Unity VF-01

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity suborbital spaceship reached 89.99 km on this flight, making it a suborbital spaceflight by U.S. standards only. The U.S. marks the boundary of space at 80 km whereas the rest of the world uses the internationally recognized Kármán line at 100 km as the boundary to space. 

Mike Masucci

Colin Bennett

Pantaleone Carlucci

Axiom Space

SpaceX

This astronaut crossed the Kármán Line (100 km), the internationally accepted boundary of space.

Crossed Kármán Line

This astronaut visited the International Space Station.

ISS Visitor

Axiom-3

Spain

Turkey

Sweden

SpaceX and Axiom launched the second all-private astronaut crew to the ISS. The Ax-2 crew spent 8 days working and living on the International Space Station to implement a full mission manifest of science, outreach, and commercial activities.

Crew Dragon is the first privately built and operated orbital spacecraft capable of flying humans. As a reusable SpaceX capsule, it transports crew members to and from the International Space Station. It will also carry paying customers to the Station and low Earth orbit. While it typically accommodates a crew of four, this number can vary depending on the mission.

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