Virgin Galactic, the California-based spaceflight subsidiary of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, announced on 06 October 2023 that its Galactic 04 mission—the company’s fifth manned space-flight in five-months—had been successfully completed and the three private astronauts borne spaceward aboard such had returned safely to Earth. Virgin Galactic asserts its unbroken string of successful spaceflights evinces the company’s ability to deliver safe, repeatable space-travel and a transformative customer experience.
In perhaps the most unlikely syncretism of practicality and ostentation, Italian luxury fashion marque Prada will collaborate with Axiom Space, the Houston, Texas-based space infrastructure development concern, in the design and manufacture of the spacesuits in which the Artemis III astronauts will journey to and possibly land on Earth’s moon.
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