Galactic 04 passengers experience weightlessness. Image credit: Virgin Galactic. Highlighting a continued monthly launch cadence, Galactic 04/SpaceShipTwo flitted with the edge of space today (October ...

Both SpaceX and Blue Origin have dabbled in space tourism, launching a handful of paying customers into space aboard their rockets. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has been promising a different ...

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 ...

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 ...

The team aboard VSS Unity will work on 13 science payloads during a 90-minute suborbital flight. A joint team of the Italian Air Force and the National Research Council will launch on the first ...

Update for 12:20 p.m. ET, June 29: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space plane, VSS Unity has successfully landed, completing the company's first commercial spaceflight. See more images, video and read ...

Virgin Galactic flew six people – a crew of four and two pilots – just past the edge of space Thursday in its first suborbital test flight since Richard Branson boarded the company’s space plane two ...

Reference Virgin Galactic is offering suborbital flights to anyone with pockets deep enough to buy a seat, and there is a lengthy waitlist. Virgin Galactic aced its fifth test flight to suborbital ...

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 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 ...

After Richard Branson delivered some inspiring words from his seat aboard SpaceShipTwo Unity, he unbuckled himself and started to float around the vehicle’s cabin along with three other Virgin ...

Virgin Galactic completed the first glide flight of the updated SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity from Spaceport America in New Mexico on April 26, paving the way for a return to rocket-powered ...