Virgin Galactic was founded by Richard Branson in 2004, but it floundered in its early years with launching any working technology into space. Finally in 2018, the completed their first successful ...

A team of five juniors from Saint Thomas Academy is one of 60 winning teams in the fifth annual NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge, a nationwide contest to engage middle and ...

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic is looking forward to sending private astronauts to suborbital space and back, with an expected average of 125 flights per year, using its two new spaceships. The ...

Shares of Virgin Galactic climbed as a notice from the Federal Aviation Administration indicated that the company's next spaceflight test is on track to launch as early as Saturday. An FAA notice ...

Virgin Galactic conducted a historic first supersonic test flight of SpaceShipTwo on April 29, 2013, in the Mojave Desert, CA. [See full story.] Virgin Galactic conducted a historic first supersonic ...

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 ...

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 ...

FARNBOROUGH, England— Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of the private space tourism company Virgin Galactic, unveiled plans today (July 11) to add satellite launches to its list of ...