Virgin Atlantic Airways has modernized its fleet with Airbus A350-1000s and Airbus A330-900neos. The planes replace aging widebodies and come with upgraded business and economy cabins. The A330neo ...

SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico—I’m standing on a spaceport runway at the ass end of nowhere. The sun has started to creep over the craggy San Andreas Mountains, illuminating the massive, alien ...

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic picked up the pace in the space tourism marketplace with the launch Thursday of its VSS Unity rocketplane carrying an 80-year-old former British Olympian and a mother ...

Update: The launch was a success start to finish, and the vessel has returned safely to the ground. The headline and images have been updated to reflect this; original story follows. Virgin Galactic ...

A smooth flight is key to the company's ambitious plans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Update for 12:20 p.m. ET, June 29: ...

Correction, Oct. 16, 2024: This story originally stated a team from Virgin Galactic traveled to an altitude of about 53 miles and crossed the Kármán line. That has been clarified, as the team did not ...

Last year, Virgin Galactic seemed to finally be hitting a stride toward making commercial suborbital spaceflight. The company flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space six times in six ...

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