This was Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity's last flight. Six passengers and crew flew to an altitude of 54.4 miles (87.5 km).

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 ...

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity last week completed its seventh flight over the Mojave Desert, the first since last summer. The flight was designed to validate work completed during recent months of ...

SPACEPORT AMERICA — Kellie Gerardi, a payload specialist and bioastronautics researcher with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences, exited the VSS Unity on Thursday morning after a ...

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 ...

After assembling model rockets as a kid in rural Pennsylvania and dreaming of becoming an astronomer, Mike Moses embarked on a distinguished 17-year NASA career centered on human spaceflight — where ...

Virgin Galactic's supersonic space plane soared into the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere Thursday for a milestone test flight. It indicates the company is not far off from sending tourists to ...

Virgin Galactic informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece of hardware on its most recent suborbital flight. Virgin Galactic's sixth commercial spaceflight may be ...