Today marks an exciting milestone in our shared quest to open space to change the world for good. For the first time, a spaceship built by our manufacturing arm, The Spaceship Company, and operated by ...

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 ...

After almost two years of grounding the spacecraft for its development and flight readiness, the VSS Unity has recently completed its glide test on Spaceport America that marks its return for future ...

Virgin Galactic announced that May 25 will mark the opening for its Unity 25 mission, and Spaceport America, located in New Mexico, will serve as its launch site, according to a press release from the ...

Virgin Galactic's VMS Eve mothership (left) and VSS Unity suborbital spaceplane at Spaceport America after VMS Eve returned to the spaceport Feb. 27. Credit: Spaceport America BROOMFIELD, Colo. — ...

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Traveling to space must be “more accessible to all,” Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson said during a news conference following his successful flight aboard Galactic’s VSS Unity earlier today.

Welcome to the space race, billionaire edition. Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, is set to launch into space the morning of July 11, weather and technical checks permitting. If the ...

Unity was introduced to the public on February 19, 2016. The passenger spaceship was already under construction by the Spaceship Company — a Mojave, California-based subsidiary of Virgin Galactic at ...

Virgin Galactic is finally on the cusp of launching its space tourism business. After a late start, the company has completed its last VSS Unity flight test before commercial service starts. The Unity ...

Virgin Galactic shared an awe-inspiring video from the final flight of its VSS Unity spaceplane. The space plane's final commercial mission, called Galactic 07, took off from Spaceport America in ...