Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic picked up the pace in the space tourism marketplace with the launch Thursday of its VSS Unity rocketplane carrying an 80-year-old former British Olympian and a mother ...

SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico—I’m standing on a spaceport runway at the ass end of nowhere. The sun has started to creep over the craggy San Andreas Mountains, illuminating the massive, alien ...

Virgin Galactic suspended space tourism flights last year, and won't resume until next year. The company recently announced a collaboration with Redwire to install "research payload lockers" in its ...

Scarlet Night, Virgin Voyages' take on Captain's Night, features a ship-wide celebration with a playful, immersive theatrical experience. Passengers can choose their own adventure, from intimate ...

Last year, Virgin Galactic seemed to finally be hitting a stride toward making commercial suborbital spaceflight. The company flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space six times in six ...

It was Virgin Galactic's seventh commercial spaceflight mission and the company's second of 2024. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Correction, Oct. 16, 2024: This story originally stated a team from Virgin Galactic traveled to an altitude of about 53 miles and crossed the Kármán line. That has been clarified, as the team did not ...

Virgin Galactic started operating commercial flights of its space tourism business in 2023. Before the company was operational it pre-sold tickets for as little as $200,000. Now that it is flying ...

On pace with its once-a-month flight goal, Virgin Galactic is about to embark on its fifth commercial mission, and its final flight of 2023. Galactic 05 is scheduled to lift off this Thursday (Nov. 2) ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robin Raven covers luxury travel, vegan dining, hotels and the arts. Jul 04, 2024, 04:41pm EDT If you dream of going on an ...