VSS Enterprise achieves manned free flight from over 45,000 ft (13,700 metres) and successfully glides to land at Mojave Air and Spaceport. 10th October 2010, Mojave, CA. Virgin Galactic, the US ...

Even after flying 140 different types of aircraft, the chief pilot on Virgin Galactic's successful powered-spaceship test Thursday (April 5) says being at the helm of the VSS Unity was "something else ...

The commercial space travel industry has advanced to another level of its birthing process. Virgin Galactic announced that its commercial spaceship, VSS Enterprise, successfully completed its first ...

Virgin Galactic's suborbital spaceship, the VSS Enterprise, made its first piloted free flight and landing yesterday in Mojave, California. Pete Siebold was at the controls. Tony Reichhardt | Read ...

Earlier this week, Richard Branson’s dream of getting closer to the stars got another jolt, after his space-fairing company, Virgin Galactic, conducted the second, successful powered test flight of ...

VSS Enterprise completes her first captive carry… Virgin Galactic announced today that VSS Enterprise has completed her inaugural captive carry flight from Mojave Air and Spaceport. This very first ...

Virgin Galactic just took a major step towards its space tourism dreams becoming a reality, as it successfully flew its new space plane under rocket power for the first time since a fatal crash in ...

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic Holdings (NYSE: SPCE) unveiled its next-generation spaceship today. The VSS Imagine becomes the company's second active spacecraft, and its third overall. Its ...

One of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spaceships on Wednesday completed a re-entry technique known as a "feather" configuration for the first time. The SpaceShipTwo (SS2), known as the VSS ...

Nascent suborbital space ride company Virgin Galactic unveiled its six-passenger prototype, the VSS Enterprise, at a star-studded roll-out ceremony at the Mojave Air and Space port on 7 December.