Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity lands at Spaceport America Oct. 6 at the end of the Galactic 04 mission. Credit: Spaceport America By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 6 October 2023 WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic continued its monthly cadence of commercial suborbital spaceflights Oct. 6, carrying three customers that included the
By Chris Young, Published by Interesting Engineering, 13 September 2023 New Shepard might fly again surprisingly soon, though the company has yet to make an official announcement. A year ago, on September 12, Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket crashed into the desert having suffered an anomaly. The capsule escape
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
Starship SN15 takes off on May 5, 2021. (Credit: SpaceX webcast) By Peter Howson, Published by Context, 25 May 2023 Like the colonial conquests of the past, in today’s space race, indigenous people are losing their land and identities Colonialism has always involved boldly going to pinch other people’s stuff.
