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's Richard Branson to co-pilot Space ... and have since returned to Houston to rejoin the post-flight ...

Marc and Sharon Hagle, both making their second space flight, were among the passengers for the NS-28 mission.

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 ...

Virgin Galactic leases a large section of the facility. Reaching its high-altitude launch point at about 46,000 feet, the VSS Unity passenger rocket plane was released from the mothership and fell ...

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 ...

Watch Sir Richard Branson's flight to the edge of space (and back) Billionaire Sir Richard Branson has successfully reached the edge of space on board his Virgin Galactic rocket plane. The UK ...

British billionaire and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson ... balloon on the company's upcoming maiden crewed flight about 19 miles up above the Earth's surface. When? The landmark mission may ...

(Reuters) - Virgin Galactic Holding Inc acknowledged on Tuesday that billionaire founder Richard Branson never rode a bicycle to the launch site of his space flight on Sunday, as depicted in a ...