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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Virgin Galactic rolled out a new version of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket Friday as it prepares to return to flight testing for the first time since a 2014 accident destroyed the ...

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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 ...

Blue Origin paused its space tourism flights to focus on its lunar lander and New Glenn launches in Florida, creating an opening for Virgin Galactic.

A Virgin Galactic test flight Saturday ended prematurely as the spacecraft's rocket motor failed to ignite and it then glided down safely to its landing site in southern New Mexico. The spacecraft’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the span of five years, 92 different people boarded Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket for brief flights to the edge ...

For a good two years, it was quiet around Virgin Galactic. For this year, the space company has announced flights into space ...

New Mexico's Spaceport America has a rich history of launches, from human spaceflight to carrying ashes to space.

In the span of five years, 92 different people boarded Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket for brief flights to the edge of space. Those 17 human spaceflights from West Texas – some of which ...