Virgin Galactic and NASA Collaborate for Groundbreaking Space Mission

Virgin Galactic has teamed up with NASA scientist Alan Stern and bioastronautics researcher Kellie Gerardi for their upcoming mission, Galactic 05. Stern will be training for future suborbital spaceflights and conducting experiments to assess researchers' reactions to high G-forces and the microgravity environment. Gerardi will fly three human-tended payloads, including studying fluid behavior in low gravity and investigating the effects of long-duration spaceflight on insulin resistance. The mission represents a new era of access to space for the research community and is part of Virgin Galactic's commercial spaceflight program.