It’s almost time for VSS Unity to stand down. The spaceship’s last commercial flight out of Spaceport America is Saturday. Then, it’ll be all hands on deck for spaceflight company Virgin Galactic to ...

We kind of lost track of how many times Richard Branson promised we’ll have tourists going to the edge of space by this or that date. It’s 2021 already, and it would seem turning this dream into ...

Virgin Galactic soared as much as 25% on Thursday after the company scheduled a test flight for its Unity spaceship this Saturday. Previous test flight delays had sent shares of Virgin Galactic ...

VSS Unity, attached to its VMS Eve mothership aircraft, takes off from Spaceport America June 8 on the Galactic 07 suborbital spaceflight. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust Updated 6:15 p.m. Eastern with ...

After four years of quiet construction, Virgin Galactic stormed back into the space tourism industry yesterday with the unveiling of VSS Unity, their second vehicle for commercial flights. The ...

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MOJAVE, California — Virgin Galactic's new spaceship has the enthusiastic endorsement of one of the world's greatest scientists, who plans to fly on the vehicle one day. Famed cosmologist and ...

Nearly 16 months after the tragic crash of Virgin Galactic's Enterprise during a test flight, the spaceflight company on Friday unveiled the spaceship's newest successor, the Spaceship Unity. The ...

The third rocket-powered supersonic test of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceship took place last week in the skies over the Mojave Air and Space Port, with pilots Dave Mackay and Mike “Sooch” Masucci ...

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) (“Virgin Galactic” or “the Company”), a vertically integrated aerospace company, has successfully completed another vital step on its path to commercial ...