Aug. 14—After Spaceport America's biggest tenant, Virgin Galactic, ended commercial flights out of the launch facility near Truth or Consequences last year, the Spaceport reported slight hits to its ...

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 ...

Virgin Galactic (SPCE) stock jumped 14.6% in extended trading on Thursday after the company said it would raise its prices for space flights and remains on track to resume commercial flights in 2026.

Virgin Galactic informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece of hardware on its most recent suborbital flight. Virgin Galactic's sixth commercial spaceflight may be ...

(Virgin Group founder Richard Branson was one of the passengers on that debut jaunt). Virgin Galactic has flown seven commercial flights to date, the most recent one occurring in June 2024. The ...

Just days after returning from his first space flight, Sir Richard Branson is partnering with a charity fundraising platform to give away two tickets on an upcoming commercial space flight. Omaze is ...

Virgin Galactic was founded in 2004. Initially, it owned 70% of The Spaceship Company (TSC), a subsidiary that owned the technology created by Scaled Composites (now a part of Northrop Grumman ( NOC ...

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 does not plan on sending paying customers to space until the last quarter of 2022. "Recent material testing returned new data that requires further analysis," the company said in a ...

In celebration of Nelson Mandela on Mandela Day, Virgin Galactic and Galactic Unite have announced a new initiative, inspired by the great man himself. Above: Virgin founder Richard Branson and Nelson ...