First scientist slated to fly to space on Virgin Galactic’s suborbital tourist rocket

12:18pm PDT - October 14th, 2020    cher - The Verge

Planetary scientist Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute, who helmed NASA’s Pluto mission, is slated to fly to space on Virgin Galactic’s tourist spaceplane, SpaceShipTwo. He’ll be the first researcher to fly and oversee experiments while on board.