Virgin Galactic's recent spaceflight flew ancient human fossils to space
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On September 8, Virgin Galactic scripted success with its third commercial spaceflight, Galactic 03. That crewed mission is also significant for another reason. It carried two fossilized bones of ancient humans into space for the first time in history. Of the two, one was a two-million-year-old collarbone and the other was a 250,000-year-old thumb bone. The specimens were stored in a protected container and accompanied by one of the three paying customers on board, Timothy Nash.