Richard Branson will be "Astronaut 001" on the next SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceflight July 11, going to space days before Jeff Bezos flies on Blue Origin's New Shepard. Credit: Virgin Galactic ...

VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo, near the apogee of its third powered flight July 26. Credit: Virgin Galactic WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo set new speed and ...

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Virgin Galactic has hit a small speed bump as it continues testing of its spaceplane in New Mexico, with the latest outing for SpaceShipTwo Unity brought to a premature end due to rocket failure. The ...

The space plane, designed for space tourism, crashed in California's Mojave Desert. One fatality and one major injury have been confirmed by Virgin Galactic. Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET ...

Virgin Galactic plans to conduct SpaceShipTwo's first rocket-powered test flights outside Earth's atmosphere by the end of this year. SpaceShipTwo is a 60-foot carbon-composite spacecraft designed to ...

The twin cabins are basically carbon copies of the SpaceShipTwo cabin, so riding on WhiteKnightTwo will give passengers a taste of what the big blast to space will be like. While commercial astronauts ...

Virgin Galactic said its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane today executed a successful gliding flight test that was “essentially a dry run for rocket-powered flights.” “Our major first today though was that ...

Inside the cabin of SpaceShipTwo is another story: Virgin Galactic has designed the interior from top to bottom to maximize each astronaut’s experience. “The spaceship cabin interior is in many ways ...

Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites and Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic watch the first solo test glide test of SpaceShipTwo on Oct. 10, 2010. The VSS2 Enterprise glides through the sky during the ...

Virgin Galactic’s spaceship, meant to eventually take wealthy passengers on brief rides into space, crashed during a test flight over southern California on Friday morning. One of its two pilots was ...