Virgin Galactic, a brand of Sir Richard Branson famous for its low-earth orbit rocket ship, has decided to throw its hat into ...

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 ...

As investors turn their attention to the growing space industry and national security needs, their interest in companies like ...

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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue aerospace engineering professor and student are about to take the classroom to new heights. On Tuesday, Virgin Galactic and Purdue University announced an upcoming ...

An all-Purdue University crew is set to make history on a suborbital research flight with Virgin Galactic. Scheduled for launch in 2027, the mission, dubbed "Purdue 1," will see a professor, a student ...

A seat on Virgin Galactic’s sub-orbital flights costs around $450,000. In 2021, SpaceX launched a fully civilian mission into orbit, funded by billionaire Jared Isaacman, currently nominated to be ...