This was CNBC's live blog covering Virgin Galactic's first commercial spaceflight, Galactic 01. Space tourism company Virgin Galactic, founded by Sir Richard Branson in 2004, completed its ...

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceflight touched the edge of space on Sunday morning for the company’s fourth crewed flight. The flight was successful and landed back in New Mexico roughly an ...

More than a year has gone by since Virgin Galactic last sent a group of civilian passengers to the edge of space from the New Mexico desert. In June 2024, six space tourists boarded the company's VSS ...

Experience Virgin Galactic Unity's Galactic 02 flight with these amazing views from inside and out of suborbital space plane VSS Unity. Passengers: Jon Goodwin, Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Virgin Galactic has reached another pair of milestones as it works toward the goal of beginning commercial flights from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico. CEO George ...

"This mission with Purdue University is a powerful demonstration of what becomes possible when research institutions and ...

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 ...

MOJAVE, Calif. -- Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship climbed more than 50 miles high above California's Mojave Desert on Thursday, reaching for the first time what the company considers the boundary ...

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc., a vertically integrated aerospace and space travel company, today revealed the cabin interior of its first SpaceshipTwo vehicle, VSS Unity in a virtual event streamed ...

Virgin Galactic has signed an agreement with NASA to develop a training program that will help private passengers prepare for spaceflight missions to the International Space Station. Under the Space ...

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger, two-pilot spacecraft aiming to make the world's first commercial suborbital spaceflights later this year, conducted its third rocket ...