Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo vehicle glides back to Spaceport America after its Galactic 01 suborbital flight June 29. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust Updated 4:40 p.m. Eastern with ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity during a free flight in Earth's atmosphere on April 26, 2023. Virgin Galactic will launch its first ...

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, fires up its hybrid rocket motor to head spaceward. (Virgin Galactic via YouTube) Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson rode his company’s ...

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity and its mothership (left) are modeled after the SpaceShipOne launch system (right) that was built with Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’s backing. (Photos by Virgin Galactic ...

Colin Bennett looks down at Earth from VSS Unity. Image credit: Virgin Galactic. A mother-daughter duo from Antigua and Barbuda who won their tickets in a sweepstakes and an 80-year-old former ...

SPACEPORT AMERICA, N.M.—Early July 11, billionaire Richard Branson and five other crewmates briefly launched into space for the first fully crewed spaceflight of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo ...

Virgin Galactic shares are soaring Thursday after the company was cleared for takeoff by the Federal Aviation Administration following the agency's investigation into a July 11 test flight of its VSS ...

SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity has safely and successfully completed her first supersonic, rocket-powered flight. After two years of extensive ground and atmospheric testing, the passing of this milestone ...

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Virgin Galactic has 9-hour window for its SpaceShipTwo Unity 25 launch to suborbital space on May 25. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...