The flight, called Unity 25, will be the fifth time that Virgin Galactic has flown to space. The company last made such a journey on July 11, 2021, with billionaire Virgin Group founder Richard ...

Virgin Galactic will fly to space for the first time in nearly two years later this month, if all goes according to plan. The company announced today (May 8) that it's targeting late May for Unity ...

Virgin Galactic completed its final test flight last month It's been a long road for the company to reach a point where it says it's able to now take paying customers on brief trips to space.

Virgin Galactic will now begin offering monthly flights next month, according to the company, which has a backlog of passengers that have been waiting years to teeter on the edge of space. Thus ...

Virgin Galactic announced Thursday it will launch its first two commercial space flights in June and August, causing the 19-year-old company’s share price to spike over 40% in after-hours ...

Virgin Galactic has reached space five times since 2018 and will be aiming for 400 flights per year from Spaceport America once it finishes building its next class of rocket-powered planes at a ...

Space tourists, from left, Anastatia Mayers, Jon Goodwin and Keisha Schahaff pose for photos before boarding their Virgin Galactic flight at Spaceport America, near Truth or Consequences, N.M ...

Update: June 29, 12:55 p.m. ET: Virgin Galactic has successfully completed its first commercial flight, with the Unity spaceplane reaching a maximum altitude of 52.9 miles (85.1 kilometers).

Key Background. Thursday’s flight was operated by Virgin Galactic, which was founded in 2004 by billionaire Richard Branson with the goal of taking wealthy clients to the edge of space.

Virgin Galactic is planning the next test flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle as soon as Dec. 13, a flight that could be the first to reach space.

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity comes in for a landing after its suborbital test flight on December 13, 2018, in Mojave, California. - Virgin Galactic marked a major milestone on Thursday as its ...

It was the first space flight for a Virgin Galactic-built vehicle and, somewhat surprisingly, the first human spaceflight launched from U.S. soil since the last Space Shuttle mission in 2011.