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From left, Chief Pilot Dave Mackay, Lead Operations Engineer Colin Bennett, Chief Astronaut Instructor Beth Moses, Founder of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson, Vice President of Government Affairs and Research Operations Sirisha Bandla and pilot Michael Masucci. Just a week shy of turning 71, the London-born founder of the Virgin Group will become only the second septuagenarian in space. (Source: Virgin Galactic)
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Beth Moses, Chief Astronaut Instructor at Virgin Galactic. Moses obtained bachelor’s and master’s degrees in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Purdue University. She worked for NASA’s Johnson Space Center as the extravehicular activity system manager for the International Space Station. She was the first woman to make a spaceflight on a commercially launched vehicle, Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity VF-01 flight on Feb. 22, 2019.