The company described the flight as a “captive carry” test, in which the launch vehicle and spacecraft are held together. As well as ensuring a safe flight, engineers used the event as a real-world ...

(The Hill) — Three private citizens launched into space and landed safely back on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spacecraft, completing the company’s second spaceflight of 2024 and 12 missions to date.

Last year was a very important one for Virgin Galactic, given that 2023 marked the first time it actually operated a commercial space flight. Essentially, it proved that it could successfully run a ...

WEST DOT OR VIRGIN GALACTIC IS SET TO RETURN TO SPACEPORT AMERICA FOR MORE COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS. THE COMPANY SAYS THEIR NEW DELTA CLASS SPACECRAFT AND UPGRADED MOTHERSHIP, NAMED THE VMS EVE, WILL START ...

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 ...