The carrier spaceplane VMS Eve with VSS Unity strapped to its underbelly.
Credit: ZUMA Press Inc/Alamy Stock Photo
Virgin Galactic is investigating the loss of a part of the mechanism connecting the spaceplane VSS Unity with the carrier aircraft VMS Eve which went missing during the company’s sixth commercial spaceflight from Spaceport America, New Mexico, on Jan. 26. Virgin says the part, called an alignment...
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