Virgin Galactic launched its sub-orbital spaceplane "Unity" on its first crewed flight in two years, carrying two pilots and four company astronauts to the edge of space in a final test flight before ...

Virgin Galactic launched its sub-orbital spaceplane "Unity" on its first crewed flight in two years, carrying two pilots and four company astronauts to the edge of space in a final test flight before ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M (AP) — Virgin Galactic completed what is expected to be its final test flight Thursday before taking paying customers on brief trips to space, marking what the space tourism company ...

Virgin's commercial passenger space flight venture is soon to begin a new round of test flights for spaceliner SpaceShipTwo. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Virgin Orbit, Sir Richard Branson’s small satellite launch company, announced today that it has successfully completed a key drop test of its LauncherOne vehicle, the last major step in the ...

Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline, announced today that it has reached a significant milestone in the testing of a new family of liquid rocket engines for LauncherOne, the ...

On Saturday, Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE) conducted a successful test flight of its VSS Unity spacecraft carrying two pilots, marking the company’s first test space flight in over two years and its ...

Virgin Orbit, the sister company to Richard Branson’s space venture Virgin Galactic, is halting a rocket launch attempt because too many of its employees were at risk of Covid-19 exposure, the company ...

Virgin Galactic’s supersonic rocket plane was scheduled to fire into the upper atmosphere Saturday, but after climbing more than 40,000 feet over New Mexico attached to its mothership, the space plane ...