Virgin Galactic

This astronaut crossed the NASA Space Line (80 km), which is the minimum altitude at which NASA considers a person to have flown in outer space.

Crossed 80km Line

Ketty Pucci-Sisti Maisonrouge still remembers as a kid watching the moon landing and dreaming of going to space. Even though her mother told her she could accomplish anything, as a petite Italian woman growing up in Switzerland and France, going to space surely seemed out of reach. So she turned her secret dream into a passion for sci-fi and explored the world as a scuba diver and adventurer. In 2004, she eagerly followed SpaceShipOne as it won the Ansari XPRIZE and was ecstatic when she was told that, despite not being a 30-year-old 6’2” man with years of flying experience, she could fulfill her childhood dream and became an early Founder of Virgin Galactic. As a crew member aboard ‘Galactic 05,’ Ketty has now reached the final frontier! Her spacesuit displays the French and American flags; she carried the Italian flag in her pocket. Caption courtesy of Virgin Galactic.

Galactic 05

Virgin Galactic will launch a crew of four to suborbital space from New Mexico on the VSS Unity, a rocket-powered spaceplane.

SpaceShipTwo is designed for suborbital tourism flights to space. Owned by Virgin Orbit, the SpaceShipTwo has so far climbed above the U.S. border to space of 80 km but not over the 100 km internationally-recognized point where space begins.

SpaceShipTwo

Ketty Pucci-Sisti Maisonrouge

Italy

This astronaut is in the top 5% for number of missions.

Frequent Flyer

Galactic 01

United States of America

Unity 22

Unity 22 was Virgin Galactic's first fully crewed suborbital mission.

Galactic 03

Galactic 06

Ukraine

Austria

Unity 25

VSS Unity VF-01

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity suborbital spaceship reached 89.99 km on this flight, making it a suborbital spaceflight by U.S. standards only. The U.S. marks the boundary of space at 80 km whereas the rest of the world uses the internationally recognized Kármán line at 100 km as the boundary to space. 

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