It's taken just shy of 20 years but Sir Richard Branson has finally begun commercial operations with his Virgin Galactic rocket plane, Unity. The vehicle soared high over the New Mexico desert on ...

Virgin Galactic is grounded after the company said a small part unintentionally detached from the mothership of its rocket-powered space plane on its latest space tourism flight. The loss of the ...

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Italy's Spacewear is discussing a deal with Virgin Galactic to design and develop a clothing range for the training of its ...

Space Perspective has successfully tested Spaceship Neptune, a pressurized capsule launched by a giant SpaceBalloon, off ...

A Chinese rocket narrowly misses a landing. A Chinese space startup conducted what it called a "high-altitude" test flight of its Nebula-1 rocket on Sunday, launching the vehicle to an altitude of ...

While you were sleeping, people just like you have actually begun to travel into space. We were invited behind Virgin ...

while Blue Origin's capsule is hoisted by a reusable New Shepard rocket. Virgin Galactic is aiming for late September or early October for its next flight, with two Italian Air Force officers ...

On the flight were three passengers from the ... Tickets for a seat on a Virgin Galactic rocket can cost $450,000, though some, like Goodwin, bought their tickets over a decade ago for $250,000.

It was conceived to launch his space tourism venture Virgin Galactic – and proclaim the dawn of a new era that would “bring the dream of space travel for many millions closer to reality”. “Within five ...

Recent science highlights include U.S. duo winning the Nobel Prize for discovering microRNA's crucial role in gene regulation ...

We’re approaching our final space flight with our current ... else goes on here—vertical rocket launches, high-­altitude drone launches—since 2019 Virgin Galactic has been the spaceport ...