Virgin Galactic is about to start a key series of powered test flights of its passenger rocket plane. The company's Unity vehicle has so far conducted only glide flights after moving into its ...

Virgin Galactic announced Monday that it's postponing a pivotal crewed spaceflight that it planned to launch in mid-November due to new COVID-19 restrictions in New Mexico. The company originally ...

San Francisco, Billionaire Richard Branson 's space tourism company Virgin Galactic cut short the first rocket-powered test flight of its spaceplane from New Mexico in the US. The company had been ...

The Concorde aircraft, despite actually managing to be profitable, proved that airlines could, in theory, turn a profit if ...

Footage shows passengers on Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight unbuckling their seatbelts and floating around, experiencing zero-gravity. For the first time, a mother and daughter headed ...

“Virgin Galactic test pilots broke Mach 2 this morning, as VSS Unity took her third rocket-powered supersonic outing in less than four months,” noted Virgin Galatic in a post flight release.

Boom's recent test flight with the XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic, with iPhone and Starlink capturing the iconic moments.

Virgin Galactic ... throughout the flight. Additionally, she will utilise a biomonitoring device known as Astroskin to continuously track her vital signs from take-off to landing.

The general idea revolves around launching the vehicle into space from its departure point, before re-entering and arriving at the destination site for landing – all in a fraction of the time it ...