"Virgin Galactic's 2nd Commercial Spaceflight Crew and How to Watch the Launch Live"

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"Virgin Galactic's 2nd Commercial Spaceflight Crew and How to Watch the Launch Live"
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Virgin Galactic has announced the crew for its second commercial spaceflight, Galactic-02, which is scheduled to fly a three-person crew, an astronaut instructor, and two company pilots to suborbital space. The crew includes Jon Goodwin, an 80-year-old former British Olympian with Parkinson's disease, who will become the second person with Parkinson's to fly to space. Keisha Schahaff and her daughter Anastatia Mayers will be the first people from the Caribbean islands to fly to space. The mission aims to increase space accessibility and diversity. The launch will be livestreamed on Virgin Galactic's website, and the company plans to have a monthly cadence of launches moving forward.

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