Virgin Galactic’s sixth commercial spaceflight will lift off next month, if all goes according to plan. The mission, known as Galactic-06, is targeted for Jan. 26, Virgin Galactic announced in a statement issued on Tuesday (Dec. 19). The flight will include four private astronauts — one from Texas, one from California, one from Austria and one jointly from Ukraine and California, according to the statement. Names of the participants were not released. Virgin Galactic, which is part of billionaire Richard Branson‘s Virgin Group of companies, takes tourists and private astronauts…
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Watch Chinese astronauts get haircuts aboard Tiangong space station (video)
China’s Shenzhou 17 astronauts have been taking care of grooming alongside their on-orbit obligations. Mission commander Tang Hongbo and rookie crewmates Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin recently helped each other get haircuts aboard the Tiangong space station. Video released by CMSA, China’s human spaceflight agency, shows Tang Shengjie cutting the hair of his colleague Jiang Xinlin using a smart device that also acts as a vacuum cleaner. The device sucks up hair to minimize potential risk of it clogging up the space station’s hardware. Related: How to see and track…
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