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Virgin’s pioneering tourist-carrying spacecraft crashed on a test flight in California, killing a pilot and scattering debris across the desert — and raising questions about the program’s future. But ...

Virgin Galactic “ignored” repeated warnings in the years leading up to the deadly crash of its spacecraft in California, a rocket science safety expert said Sunday, as investigators hunted for clues ...

MOJAVE Calif. (Reuters) - The probe of Virgin Galactic’s space plane crash in California hinges on a central mystery: Why a seasoned test pilot would prematurely unlock the craft's moveable tail ...

MOJAVE Calif. (Reuters) - The hangar that housed Virgin Galactic's ill-fated SpaceShipTwo has an empty space, but at a manufacturing plant just down the road technicians on Wednesday were back at work ...

Jeff Schultes / Shutterstock.com This plane is a Virgin Galactic White Knight Two. A White Knight Two plane was reportedly accompanying the SpaceShipTwo today and has landed safely.

A co-pilot prematurely deployed tail surfaces, likely causing the crash of Virgin Galactic’s experimental rocket ship Friday, according to federal safety investigators probing the fatal accident, the ...

Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Group, a global conglomerate with holdings in aviation, space travel, telecommunications and financial services. He is the founder of Virgin Galactic, a ...