Galactic 06 was a crewed

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of the

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-class VSS ''Unity'', which launched on 26 January 2024. It was the sixth

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and eleventh overall spaceflight for American aerospace company

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Crew

Galactic 06's crew included four private passengers and two Virgin Galactic employees. First mission without an astronaut instructor on board. Franz Haider became the second Austrian citizen in space after

Franz Viehböck Franz Artur Viehböck (born 24 August 1960 in Vienna) is an Austrian electrical engineering, electrical engineer and cosmonaut, who became the first Austrian to fly in space. He visited the Mir space station in 1991 aboard Soyuz TM-13, returning ...

, while Lina Borozdina became the first Ukrainian woman in space.

Crew

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