05 December 2016
VSS Unity makes successful first glide flight test
..., but we also just can’t jump straight to the end.” That previous program was the first version of SpaceShipTwo, which two years ago suffered a catastrophic in-flight breakup due to a premature brake deployment, causing it to crash in the...
14 December 2018
VSS Unity reaches edge of space in landmark test flight
Virgin Galactic’s passenger spaceship has made history with her maiden spaceflight as it successfully reached the edge of space yesterday to return without a hitch back in the Mojave Desert in California. After taking off attached to the company’s ...
24 May 2021
Virgin Galactic makes first flight to space from New Mexico
Virgin Galactic completed its third spaceflight and the first ever spaceflight from Spaceport America, New Mexico on Saturday. The flight sees New Mexico become the third US state to launch humans into space. VSS Unity achieved a speed of Mach 3 ...
10 January 2020
Virgin Galactic's second spaceship completes a major build milestone
Virgin Galactic's space vehicle fleet is swiftly progressing as its second commercial spaceship completes a major build milestone faster than it took to get to this stage with its first spaceship, VSS Unity. The momentous event is the “Weight on ...
02 July 2021
Branson plans space trip ahead of rival Bezos
... Spaceport America in New Mexico. Its pilots, Dave Mackay and Michael Masucci, have both previously flown SpaceShipTwo beyond 80-kilometers – an altitude the company considers the boundary of space. Not all organisations acknowledge that where...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
Space tourism took a great leap forward on 11 July, when Richard Branson flew as ‘Astronaut 001’ on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital tourism vehicle, VSS Unity. The Unity 22 mission, launched from New Mexico’s Spaceport America and ...
