The battle of the billionaires hoping to claim their stake in outer space wages onward. This past weekend, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceflight company successfully reached outer space for ...

Blue Origin paused its space tourism program in Texas, leaving Virgin Galactic to fill the void. Richard Branson's company ...

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES — Virgin Galactic flew three private passengers into suborbit Thursday morning, marking the long-awaited, official launch of monthly tourist shuttles to space from Spaceport ...

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 launched its first spaceflight in nearly two years on Thursday, a key final test for the space-tourism company before it begins flying commercial passengers. Stream NBC 5 for free, ...

This was CNBC's live blog covering Virgin Galactic's first commercial spaceflight, Galactic 01. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Space tourism company Virgin Galactic, founded ...

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity space tourism vehicle has been retired after its seventh flight on Saturday, and it will be at least two years before replacement craft are ready. “The learnings we have ...

Called Unity 25, the mission represents the company's fifth spaceflight to date, launching out of Spaceport America in New Mexico. It is a "final assessment" flight, with six Virgin Galactic employees ...

Media covering Virgin Galactic flights often say the VSS Unity spaceship flew to “the edge of space,” but that may be a spaceflight misnomer. The confusion likely reflects the internationally accepted ...

For a few minutes on Jan. 26, 20 people were in space at the same time, tying a record set just last May. Virgin Galactic informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece ...