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 ...

Today, SpaceShipTwo completed its first powered test since the horrific crash in 2014 that killed one of its pilots. The craft, VSS Unity, took off from Mojave Air and Space Port aboard a plane called ...

MOJAVE, Calif. - Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo made its first powered flight Monday, breaking the sound barrier in a test over the Mojave Desert that moves the company closer to its goal of flying ...

A winged spaceship designed to take tourists on excursions beyond Earth’s atmosphere exploded during a test flight Friday over the Mojave Desert, killing a pilot in the second fiery setback for ...

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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 ...

LE BOURGET—Virgin Galactic is on track to start final assembly of the first Delta Class spaceplane at its new Phoenix, Arizona, facility within the next two months and remains on schedule to begin ...

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has crashed after what the company described as an "in-flight anomaly" during a powered test flight. According to the Associated Press, the California Highway Patrol has ...

On Monday (Feb. 27) VMS Eve flew from California's Mojave Air and Space Port to Spaceport America in New Mexico, the hub of Virgin Galactic's commercial operations. Virgin Galactic's carrier plane VMS ...

LV-X, the designation Virgin Galactic has for a new mothership aircraft, could be used for applications beyond ferrying the company's spaceplane. Credit: Virgin Galactic WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic ...