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’s VSS unity suborbital spaceplane lands at Spaceport America at the conclusion of the Galactic 06 flight Jan 26. Credit: Spaceport America WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic conducted its ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...

Ready for your next big trip? Because this one might be to space. At least that is what Virgin Galactic wants. The company is working on getting its SpaceShipTwo, named VVS Unity, up and running to ...

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It's the first of a new class of vehicles the firm is developing for suborbital space tourism. VSS Imagine will begin testing this summer, the company said. See more stories on Insider's business page ...