A Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space plane took to the air under the wing of its massive mothership Thursday (Sept. 8), marking the first flight test for the private space travel company since a ...

We already knew what folks would be wearing on low orbit jaunts aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Unity but on Tuesday the company finally revealed the cabin in which they’ll be travelling during ...

For the first time ever, Virgin Galactic has reached space — by one definition, anyway. Virgin's VSS Unity suborbital spaceliner reached a maximum altitude of 51.4 miles (82.7 kilometers) during a ...

Virgin Galactic conducted its first successful suborbital flight of its SpaceShipTwo, designated Unity 25, in May 2023 carrying six people aboard. That allowed the American spaceflight company founded ...

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE: SPCE) announced the manifest for the next rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo Unity from Spaceport America. It is the first commercial, human-tended research ...

It's not clear how long this test program will take. VSS Enterprise, for what it's worth, made its first captive-carry flight in March 2010, and executed a total of 55 successful test flights before ...

Richard Branson's company Virgin Galactic conducted a supersonic test flight over the Sierra Nevada mountains of its SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship on Thursday, the company said, three years after ...

Virgin Galactic said its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane today executed a successful gliding flight test that was “essentially a dry run for rocket-powered flights.” “Our major first today though was that ...

Virgin Galactic rolled out a new version of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket Friday as it prepares to return to flight testing for the first time since a 2014 accident destroyed the original, ...

Virgin Galactic rolled out a new version of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket as it prepares to return to flight testing for the first time since a 2014 You can save this article by registering ...

Virgin Galactic, the privately-funded space company owned by Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments PJS, today unveiled its newly completed SpaceShipTwo. The rollout ceremony was attended by ...