Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity last week completed its seventh flight over the Mojave Desert, the first since last summer. The flight was designed to validate work completed during recent months of ...

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SIERRA COUNTY, N.M. —Virgin Galactic launched its spaceship, Unity, Saturday morning at Spaceport America. It’s the company’s twelfth flight, and the last one scheduled for this year. KOB 4 introduces ...

Virgin Galactic completed its third commercial spaceflight on Friday (September 8), flying three of its 100 “founder astronauts” on a suborbital tourism flight from Spaceport America in New Mexico.

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 ...

For the first time in Virgin Galactic's 19-year existence, the private spaceflight company will launch three civilian customers — who either bought or won their seats on the VSS Unity — into space on ...