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 ...

Glide flights support pilot training and proficiency Ground crew, maintenance, and Mission Control teams build operational readiness ahead of new Spaceship operations New Spaceship glide flights ...

It’s been so long since the space company founded by Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic, performed its last flight, that I almost forgot these guys are around. They are, and they’ve been working off ...

Last May I received this text message: “I know it’s been a while. We’re approaching our final space flight with our current spaceship. I thought this could be a great time for you to see the ...

Virgin Galactic’s first operational spaceship, VSS Unity, carried four passengers and nine research experiments into suborbital space and back on June 8, bringing an end to the company’s commercial ...

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Three private citizens launched into space and landed safely back on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spacecraft, completing the company’s second spaceflight of 2024 and 12 missions to date. Virgin ...

Las Cruces resident Jamila Gilbert, the internal communications lead for Virgin Galactic, became an astronaut in August 2023 when she flew on Virgin Galactic’s spaceship Unity. It’s a day she’ll never ...

In the span of just three months, the three highest-­profile billionaire players in the private space travel world had made come-fly-with-me history. Branson went to space on July 11 on Unity (she ...

Virgin Galactic’s seventh commercial research mission took off out of New Mexico on Saturday, its last before the company retires its VSS Unity spaceplane. The commercial spacecraft embarked on ...