Problems plagued Virgin Galactic rocketship long before crash. "Engineers and subcontractors working on SpaceShipTwo spent years wrestling with difficulties," the Wall Street Journal reports ...

Chinese space startup Deep Blue Aerospace sold tickets for a 12-minute journey to space, which could take place as soon as ...

In 2009, Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipTwo, named VSS Enterprise. Designed for suborbital flights, the spacecraft was built to carry six passengers and two pilots. The project aimed to create ...

Virgin Galactic is proposing to raise $300 million in additional capital to accelerate production of suborbital spaceplanes and a mothership aircraft the company says can fuel its long-term growth.

This unusual-looking plane boasts a quadjet design and its purpose is to launch Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo from the ...

"New Shepard astronauts ascend toward space at more than three times the speed of sound. They pass the Kármán line, the ...

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Eight people were on the suborbital mission: two pilots on the WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft, and two pilots and four spaceflight participants on the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft. The mishap involved ...

Virgin Galactic hopes to have the first official launch of its SpaceShipTwo by the end of 2014. At $250,000 per ticket, the company has attracted about 700 customers so far. Departing from the ...

Following his July 2021 suborbital flight aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson plans a near-space ride as co-pilot for Space Perspective’s first crewed ...

On 1994, President Bill Clinton signed the California Desert Protection Act, establishing Death Valley and Joshua Tree ...