Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left to right: Anastatia Mayers, Jon Goodwin, and Keisha Schahaff are flying to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic's first ...

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Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity lands at Spaceport America Oct. 6 at the end of the Galactic 04 mission. Credit: Spaceport America WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic continued its monthly cadence of commercial ...

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, fires up its hybrid rocket motor to head spaceward. (Virgin Galactic via YouTube) Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson rode his company’s ...

SPACEPORT AMERICA, N.M. (KRQE) – Virgin Galactic is reporting a successful test flight over New Mexico, after send another crew of six people to suborbital space Thursday. On Twitter, the company ...

Traveling to space must be “more accessible to all,” Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson said during a news conference following his successful flight aboard Galactic’s VSS Unity earlier today.

SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity has safely and successfully completed her first supersonic, rocket-powered flight. After two years of extensive ground and atmospheric testing, the passing of this milestone ...

Virgin Galactic will attempt its first space flight with a passenger, company founder Richard Branson, Sunday morning from Spaceport America in Sierra County, New Mexico. The launch time will be 8:30 ...

Today marks an exciting milestone in our shared quest to open space to change the world for good. For the first time, a spaceship built by our manufacturing arm, The Spaceship Company, and operated by ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — Virgin Galactic on Saturday made its first rocket-powered flight from New Mexico to the fringe of space in a manned shuttle, as the company forges toward offering tourist flights to ...

Sir Richard Branson, after nearly 17 years of Virgin Galactic development, achieved his dream and reached space on Sunday. "I have dreamt of this moment since I was a kid, and honestly nothing could ...