Virgin Galactic is an aerospace and space travel company that is part of British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group conglomerate. Virgin Galactic's first of seven commercial spaceflights ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — It's official: Boilermakers are heading into space in 2027. "We're going to have a suborbital space flight crewed entirely by Boilermakers," President Mung Chiang said in a press ...

The Problem That Grounded the Future By the late 1940s, American aviation had reached a limit literally. Fighter aircra ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Federal Aviation Administration has tightened the official definition of an astronaut, meaning Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson have been stripped of the title, according to the ...

The company is also looking at using its mothership aircraft that releases spacecraft at high altitude as a carrier platform for other customers. Virgin Galactic is deep into development of its new ...

"This mission with Purdue University is a powerful demonstration of what becomes possible when research institutions and educators gain direct access to the microgravity environment." The university ...

We're used to space exploration programs, including the ones that have to do with the development of new spaceships, to be subject to delays and unforeseen changes of plans, but I must admit, I wasn't ...