The battle of the billionaires hoping to claim their stake in outer space wages onward. This past weekend, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceflight company successfully reached outer space for ...

Virgin Galactic took a step closer to completing development of its space tourism system on Saturday. "It was flawless," Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier told CNBC about the flight. Virgin ...

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 informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece of hardware on its most recent suborbital flight. Virgin Galactic's sixth commercial spaceflight may be ...

For that reason, we sent only our finest, fittest, brightest, bravest to make the journeys. Test pilots, PhDs, military ...

After assembling model rockets as a kid in rural Pennsylvania and dreaming of becoming an astronomer, Mike Moses embarked on a distinguished 17-year NASA career centered on human spaceflight — where ...

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WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic is preparing for a new flight test Thursday that aims to fly higher and faster than before toward the edge of space. The US company run by British tycoon Richard Branson ...

Former NASA flight director Mike Moses, who oversaw the final space shuttle missions, now leads development of Virgin Galactic's Delta-class spacecraft. Delta-class rocket planes are expected to begin ...