Virgin Galactic Vows to Continue Space Tourism After SpaceShipTwo Crash
November 1st, 2014
Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides said the company will figure out what went wrong and continue to work to get SpaceShipTwo up and running.
Read More » Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Spacecraft Crashes During Test Flight
October 31st, 2014
SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic's passenger spacecraft, experienced an 'anomaly' during its fourth rocket-powered test flight on Friday, Oct. 31. See the latest details here.
Read More » Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Aces Glide Test Flight
October 8th, 2014
SpaceShipTwo completed an unpowered "glide flight" from California's Mojave Air and Spaceport Tuesday. The vehicle rotated its tail and wings upward during the test, "feathering" them as it would to during the descent phase of a suborbital spaceflight.
Read More » SpaceShipOne: The First Private Spacecraft | The Most Amazing Flying Machines Ever
October 2nd, 2014
SpaceShipOne launched the era of private spaceflight.
Read More » Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic Reality Check
September 14th, 2014
Less than a month after saying he'd be "bitterly disappointed" if Virgin Galactic flights don't start by the end of the year, Richard Branson admits that we'll need to wait a little longer.
Read More » Win A Trip To Sub-Orbital Space With Virgin Galactic + Land Rover | Video
September 3rd, 2014
The space tourism company and its partner automaker has just announced a chance for you and 3 of your friends to fly on SpaceShipTwo. Find out more about it at virgin.com.
Read More » Wanted: Unmanned Space Plane to Fly On the Cheap
August 18th, 2014
It's a dream older than the Space Age itself: a fully reusable rocket that can fly into space, deploy its cargo, return to Earth and then do it again rapidly, cheaply and with minimal maintenance.
Read More » Joe Satriani Wants To 'Surf On Saturn's Rings' | Exclusive Interview Video
June 18th, 2014
The 'guitar god' expresses his displeasure with the sorry state of Humanity’s reach into the cosmos. 'Satch' likens space tourism flights to bad airline experiences and muses upon transporter beam practicality.
Read More » Virgin Galactic to Fly 12 Space Tech Experiments on Private Spaceliner
June 9th, 2014
As Virgin Galactic prepares to carry paying tourists into space, it's also readying another source of flight cash: carrying tech experiments designed for microgravity.
Read More » Elon Musk, Buzz Aldrin Top List for LA Conference on Space Travel's Future
May 15th, 2014
Spaceflight industry experts and supporters are gathering in the City of Angels this week to discuss the future of human spaceflight during a conference featuring Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin and Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX.
Read More » Sir Richard Branson Wants to Track Down Kid Who Inspired Virgin Galactic (Video)
April 10th, 2014
Branson wants to find Shihan Musafer, a child who called in to ask him the following question on the BBC TV show "Going Live!" back in 1988: "Have you ever thought about going into space?"
Read More » Space Jokes Blast Off for April Fools' Day: See Our Favorites
April 1st, 2014
From a billionaire to a respected science journal, everyone is getting in on the ridiculous April Fools' Day fun. A few of the more elaborate jokes flying around the internet today (April 1) involve spaceflight and astrophysics.
Read More » Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crash Caps Terrible Week for Commercial Spaceflight
October 31st, 2014
Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Antares rocket exploded on Tuesday just after launching on an unmanned cargo mission to the International Space Station. Then, on Friday, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashed during a test flight, killing one pilot.
Read More » A Decade into a New Spaceflight Era, a Mixture of Frustration and Optimism
October 22nd, 2014
Company executives and government officials at a commercial space conference expressed a mixture of optimism and impatience.
Read More » Virgin Galactic 'On the Verge' of Private Space Launches, Richard Branson Says
October 5th, 2014
One decade after a huge milestone in commercial spaceflight, Sir Richard Branson thinks his spaceflight company Virgin Galactic's spaceship, is "on the verge" of another breakthrough in the industry.
Read More » SpaceShipTwo: On a Flight Path to Space Tourism
October 2nd, 2014
SpaceShipTwo should start flying paying customers into space sometime in 2015, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has said.
Read More » Virgin Galactic, Land Rover Launch Contest to Send People into Space
September 12th, 2014
Talk about "off-Earth roading." The car company Land Rover is partnering with the private spaceflight company Virgin Galactic to send the most adventurous people it can find into space.
Read More » XCOR Aerospace's Private Lynx Space Plane to Get New Texas Home
August 28th, 2014
XCOR Aerospace — the builder of the Lynx space plane — is renovating the main hangar for the spaceship designed to bring paying tourists into suborbital space. Lynx could launch on its first test flights later this year.
Read More » 'Make Your Own SpaceShipTwo,' Other Books Part of New Virgin Galactic Deal
August 6th, 2014
Virgin Galactic's commercial SpaceShipTwo will soon launch onto — and, in at least one example, out of — the pages of seven books thanks to a partnership between the private spaceflight company and DK, a publisher of illustrated reference books.
Read More » Virgin Galactic's Spaceline Picture Coming into Focus
June 13th, 2014
Virgin Galactic is reporting progress on creating the world's first commercial spaceline. But fitting all the elements together to handle high-velocity suborbital space travel has proved slow-going.
Read More » Virgin Galactic Signs FAA Deal to Clear Airspace for Suborbital Flights
May 30th, 2014
Virgin Galactic, the private space venture bankrolled by billionaire Sir Richard Branson, has signed an agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that spells out how the company will use U.S. airspace during its planned suborbital flights.
Read More » Virgin Galactic and Land Rover Team Up for Space Travel (Video)
April 23rd, 2014
Automaker Land Rover is teaming up with private spaceflight company Virgin Galactic to help transport future commercial astronauts on Earth before flights to space.
Read More » Child Who Inspired Virgin Galactic: Where Are You? | Video
April 10th, 2014
The space tourism company is looking to thank Shihan Musafer, who in 1988 called into a BBC TV show and asked Richard Branson "Have you ever thought about going into space?", inspiring him to register the name Virgin Galactic.
Read More » Winklevoss Twins in Space: Not the 1st Identical Siblings to Leave Earth
March 6th, 2014
The Winklevoss twins launched into the headlines Wednesday (March 5) by announcing their plan to ride a Virgin Galactic space plane (and paying with Bitcoins, no less), but they aren't the first set of identical twins to fly in space.
Read More » Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Crashes in Test Flight: 1 Dead, 1 Injured
October 31st, 2014
The commercial SpaceShipTwo spacecraft built by Virgin Galactic crashed in Mojave, California Friday (Oct. 31) during a failed test flight that killed one pilot and injured another. See the latest news here.
Read More » Virgin Galactic Will Fly Rocket-Powered SpaceShipTwo Test Flights Soon
October 17th, 2014
The private spaceflight company Virgin Galactic will soon begin a new round of rocket-powered test flights of the commercial spaceliner SpaceShipTwo to prepare for eventual passenger flights to space.
Read More » How SpaceShipOne and X Prize Launched Commercial Spaceflight 10 Years Ago
October 3rd, 2014
On Oct. 4, 2004, the privately funded SpaceShipOne reached outer space for the second time in less than a week, winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize for the team that built the craft and giving a nascent industry a huge shot in the arm.
Read More » Vodka and Space Travel: Virgin Galactic Teams Up with Grey Goose
September 24th, 2014
Billionaire Sir Richard Branson announced that his space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, has a new corporate sponsor: Grey Goose.
Read More » NASA Picks 4 Companies to Test Innovative Tech Near Edge of Space
September 10th, 2014
NASA has chosen four private companies to fly experiments high into Earth's atmosphere.
Read More » Northrop Grumman Unveils Concept for XS-1 Military Space Plane (Image)
August 22nd, 2014
This week, aerospace firm Northrop Grumman released artwork depicting its conception of the XS-1 space plane, which it's designing under a $3.9 million contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Read More » UK to Launch Commercial Spaceport by 2018
August 6th, 2014
The U.K. government is laying the groundwork for its first spaceport in anticipation of a growing space tourism demand and a growing space plane industry by 2030, according to a new timetable.
Read More » Private European Space Plane Prototype Passes 1st Drop Test (Video)
June 11th, 2014
A quarter-scale prototype of SpacePlane, a vehicle being developed by the France-based company Airbus, took to the skies last month, giving engineers their first look at how the craft performs in the air.
Read More » Trip to Space with Leonardo DiCaprio Sells for $1 Million
May 23rd, 2014
DiCaprio plans to fly aboard Virgin Galactic's suborbital SpaceShipTwo vehicle in 2015. A seat on the same flight with the actor sold for nearly $1 million Thursday (May 22) at the annual amfAR auction near Cannes, France.
Read More » Virgin Galactic + Land Rover Partnership Driving to Sub-Orbital Tourism | Video
April 23rd, 2014
In a marketing exercise, the private space tourism company has joined forces with the sport utility vehicle giant to unveil the Land Rover Discovery Sport compact SUV.
Read More » XCOR Aerospace Hires Private Spaceflight Pioneer Brian Binnie as Senior Test Pilot
April 9th, 2014
A former Navy test pilot, Binnie had most recently worked for Scaled Composites, overseeing flight tests of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. He will now help another suborbital space plane, XCOR's Lynx, get off the ground.
Read More » Winklevoss Twins Pay Bitcoins for Spaceflight on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo
March 6th, 2014
Internet entrepreneurs and Olympic athletes Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, whose dispute with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was chronicled in film "The Social Network," have bought seats aboard Virgin Galactic's suborbital SpaceShipTwo.
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