Watch Virgin Galactic prep space plane for Sunday’s launch
Watch Virgin Galactic’s team attaching its space plane to the carrier aircraft ahead of its first fully crewed flight on Sunday.
How to watch Virgin Galactic’s first fully crewed space flight
Virgin Galactic is making final preparation for its first fully-crewed flight to space, and you can watch the entire event as it happens.
Branson aiming to beat Bezos in billionaires’ race to space
In a brazen display of one-upmanship, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is aiming to beat Amazon founder and Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos to space.
Virgin Galactic cleared to fly space tourists on SpaceShipTwo
The age of space tourism is almost here. Virgin Galactic has been cleared to fly paying customers on its suborbital spaceplane, the SpaceShipTwo.
Virgin Galactic spaceplane makes it to boundary of space on third test flight
After a few stumbles, Virgin Galactic has succeed in its third test flight of its spaceplane, which will be available for space tourism flights in the future.
Virgin Galactic celebrates its third successful launch, the first ever in New Mexico
Human space flight — and space tourism — took a welcome step forward on Saturday. That’s because Virgin Galactic made New Mexico the third U.S. state to ever host a…
Virgin Galactic preps rocket plane for Saturday test flight
Virgin Galactic will send its suborbital space plane on another rocket-powered test flight on Saturday as it eyes the launch of a space tourism service.
Virgin Galactic’s test flight of space tourism craft fails to reach space
Virgin Galactic’s first crewed test flight of its SpaceShipTwo Unity craft from Spaceport America in New Mexico has failed to reach the boundary of space.
Virgin Galactic aborted a major test flight in midair
This wasn’t a failure. It was an (obviously) critical test. Virgin Galactic aborted an important test mission on Saturday morning while attempting to launch its unique spacecraft, called the VSS…
These are the suits space tourists will wear on Virgin Galactic flights
Virgin Galactic has unveiled the spacesuits which will be worn by its pilots and customers for its upcoming sub-orbital space flights from Spaceport America.