It’s almost time for VSS Unity to stand down. The spaceship’s last commercial flight out of Spaceport America is Saturday. Then, it’ll be all hands on deck for spaceflight company Virgin Galactic to ...

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity space tourism vehicle has been retired after its seventh flight on Saturday, and it will be at least two years before replacement craft are ready. “The learnings we have ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Virgin Galactic shared an awe-inspiring video from the final flight of its VSS Unity spaceplane.

Virgin Galactic’s first operational spaceship, VSS Unity, carried four passengers and nine research experiments into suborbital space and back on June 8, bringing an end to the company’s commercial ...

Three private citizens launched into space and landed safely back on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spacecraft, completing the company’s second spaceflight of 2024 and 12 missions to date. Virgin ...

Jun. 15—Virgin Galactic decided to make a change in plans. The space tourism company's stock is dipping, and it has hundreds of customers who have waited over half a decade to go to space. The company ...

Correction, Oct. 16, 2024: This story originally stated a team from Virgin Galactic traveled to an altitude of about 53 miles and crossed the Kármán line. That has been clarified, as the team did not ...

Virgin Galactic's spaceflight drought will last just about two years, if all goes according to plan. The suborbital space tourism company last went to the final frontier in June 2024, on the final ...

Virgin Galactic announced Wednesday it completed its manufacturing facility that will assemble its next-generation Delta spaceships, which will fly to space from Spaceport America in southern New ...

"There were lots of times in my life where I thought, 'Ah, space isn't going to happen.' " When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It was ...