High-profile Canadian praises concept but says space tourists are 'just going to go up and fall back down again' ...

Virgin Galactic set out to make space tourism a reality, but the journey has been far more difficult than anyone expected.

The company Virgin Galactic has reopened a total of 50 seats for its space tourism flights at $750,000 per person, CEO Michael Colglazier announced last Monday (30). “With our first new spaceship ...

Champagne, caviar and seared tuna will be on the menu for Virgin Galactic astronauts in training when they arrive at the company’s new home in the desert scrublands of southern New Mexico. As they ...

On Thursday, the publicly traded spaceflight company Virgin Galactic shared on social media a new photo of its next-generation spaceship being towed outside of its factory in Mesa, Arizona. You ...

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. shares jumped after it resumed sales of its commercial space flights on a limited basis, signaling the Richard Branson-founded company is moving toward restarting tourism ...

Virgin Galactic still expects to resume taking paying customers to the edge of space by the end of 2026 as it looks to begin ground testing for its new spaceplane in April. The commercial suborbital ...

People can once again reserve a space flight with Virgin Galactic. The company, founded by Richard Branson, plans to launch flights from New Mexico's Spaceport later this year. "During spaceflight, ...

British entrepreneur Richard Branson said he expects his Virgin Galactic company to conduct its first space flight “within weeks, not months” in comments broadcast Tuesday. Speaking to CNBC in ...

With its first Delta-class suborbital spaceship expected to debut this summer, Virgin Galactic has returned its first-generation SpaceShipTwo vehicle Unity to flight for pilot and ground team training ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Throughout the course of human spaceflight, astronauts have conducted research on anything from muscle atrophy in microgravity to ...