Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo may not fly again until it has government approval, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The FAA made the announcement Thursday, a day after reports emerged that ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Virgin Galactic will postpone a SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceflight that had been scheduled for this month, electing to instead immediately begin an extended maintenance period for ...

Virgin Galactic will launch its first spaceflight in two years on its reusable space plane Unity on Thursday (May 25), but exactly when the launch takes place will depend on what time its carrier ...

SpaceShipTwo ignites its rocket motor seconds after release from its WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft July 11 from Spaceport America, New Mexico. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust SPACEPORT AMERICA, N.M. — ...

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Virgin Galactic will soon launch SpaceShipTwo on Saturday, May 22. It will mark as the third space expedition of the company in space. Besides payloads, a crew of explorers will ride aboard the VSS ...

The billionaire will ride on the company's space plane, which won't reach orbit. Branson is set to launch nine days before Jeff Bezos flies on his own company's rocket. See more stories on Insider's ...

Shares of Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. soared 14.9% in premarket trading Thursday, putting them on track for a fifth straight gain, after the aerospace and space travel company confirmed that the ...

Update for 12:30 p.m. EDT: Virgin Galactic launched its SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity on the first suborbital spaceflight from Spaceport America, New Mexico at about 11:26 a.m. EDT (1526 GMT). Read our full ...

Next rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo Unity from Spaceport America, with three paying crew members from the Italian Air Force and the National Research Council will be the first commercial, ...