Virgin Galactic is launching its first tourist passengers to the edge of space. The flight, called Galactic 02, is set to lift off on Thursday. Space tourism holds great promise for the company ...

Virgin Galactic uses an air-launch system that consists of two vehicles: A carrier aircraft called VMS Eve and a suborbital ...

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space plane has conducted the first of ... and there are even those who want to launch private space stations for people to visit. Among these is Axiom ...

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic's first flight carrying space tourists took off in the early hours of Thursday. The company's Galactic 02 mission is now flying up to 50,000 feet, where it will ...

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The entrepreneur has been working on his space tourism project for over 10 years Virgin Galactic, the space venture backed by Sir Richard Branson, is ready to launch - not into space but on the ...

British billionaire and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is investing in Titusville-based Space Perspective, and he will co-pilot a pressurized capsule and enormous hydrogen balloon on the ...

“Virgin Galactic’s partner Scaled Composites conducted a powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo earlier today. During the test, the vehicle suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of the ...

VMS Eve, Virgin Galactic's mothership aircraft used by its suborbital spaceplanes. The company is looking to raise $300 million that will mostly be used to develop a second mothership plane.

I also believe that Eve’s condition was a factor for Virgin Galactic to reduce Unity’s flight cadence from once ... s alignment pin detaching from the launch pylon during Galactic 06 earlier ...