US suborbital crewed spaceflight company Virgin Galactic announced on Friday that the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had updated the company’s commercial space transportation operator licence (which was originally issued in 2016). The update allows Virgin Galactic to fly paying passengers into space. The company pointed out that this was the first time that the FAA had licenced a “spaceline” to fly customers into space. The enterprise affirmed that this was another validation of its thorough and systematic test programme, which had complied with the FAA’s criteria for both verification and validation.
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