Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity suborbital spaceplane during the Galactic 03 flight Sept. 8. Credit: Virgin Galactic By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 8 September 2023 WASHINGTON — Operating under a veil of secrecy reminiscent of a national security launch, Virgin Galactic performed its third commercial suborbital spaceflight Sept. 8 with
By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 22 August 2023 WASHINGTON — The billionaire backing a series of private astronaut missions with SpaceX says the first of those flights will likely be delayed to some time in 2024. In a recent interview with the CNBC Manifest Space podcast, Jared Isaacman said
Anastatia (Ana) Mayers, Jon Goodwin and Keisha Schahaff, boarded the VSS Unity for a 90-minute trip into space By Thomas Mackintosh, Published by the BBC, 10 August, 2023 Virgin Galactic has taken a former Olympian, a University of Aberdeen student and her mother to the edge of space on its
By Jonathan Amos, Published by BBC News, 30 July 2023 It's taken just shy of 20 years but Sir Richard Branson has finally begun commercial operations with his Virgin Galactic rocket plane, Unity. The vehicle soared high over the New Mexico desert on Thursday to enable three Italians to conduct
By Brady Knox, Published by Washington Examiner, 16 June 2023 The commercial space flight company Virgin Galactic is set to begin commercial space flights in June, with tickets costing $450,000. The flights come shortly after the company broke its two-year hiatus with a final pre-commercial test flight in May. The
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center Credit: Getty Images By David Millward, Published by The Telegraph, 21 May 2023 The crew onboard the second-ever private mission to the International Space Station are set to carry out scientific experiments Three
Crypto tycoon is set to launch first-ever commercialized space station for space tourists in 2025 with the help of Elon Musk's SpaceX By Stacy Liberatore, Published by The Daily Mail, 11 May 2023 Haven-1 will fit a four-person crew who will live on the station for 30 days The inaugural
By Michael Sheetz, Published by CNBC, 9 May 2023 Key Points: Virgin Galactic is aiming to fly its first spaceflight in nearly two years later this month. But the space tourism company’s first quarter loss widened as it funds its fleet growth. Virgin Galactic cited “increases in research and development
