I’m always all about the outfit, so it won’t come as any surprise that I was beyond excited for last week’s reveal of the Virgin Galactic space suits. It was doubly exciting as Stuart and I were on Necker Island with a bunch of fellow Future Astronauts, so we all watched the reveal together via […]
Tag: space travel
I woke up on Friday morning and reached straight for my phone, keen to see if Virgin Galactic had flown their latest test flight and how it had gone. We’d been advised that the ‘window was open’ from Thursday morning Mojave time, but as always while the team and the spaceship may be ready, there’s […]
I ticked off another step in my space readiness program with the completion of G Force training at the NASTAR facility in Philadelphia last week. We’ll experience G forces on both the exit and the re-entry to the earths atmosphere, and the experience can be pretty intense given re-entry involves six times the weight of […]