Virgin Galactic started selling advanced tickets for the flight in the early 2000s. Though some early tickets were sold for around $200,000 to $250,000, they are now being sold for $450,000 , with ...

Virgin Galactic launched its first fully commercial flight of the SpaceShipTwo space plane called VSS Unity Thursday. The ship carried four people and launched around 11:00 a.m. ET, which was ...

Key Background. Thursday’s flight was operated by Virgin Galactic, which was founded in 2004 by billionaire Richard Branson with the goal of taking wealthy clients to the edge of space.

Virgin Galactic shows a view of Earth from Virgin Galactic’s rocket plane as it reaches an altitude of more than 54 miles during the test flight on May 25, 2023. AP.

A three-man crew from Italy soared more than 50 miles (80 km) above the New Mexico desert on Thursday aboard a Virgin Galactic rocket plane, the company's first flight of paying customers to the ...

Virgin Galactic's passenger rocket plane VSS Unity, borne by twin-fuselage carrier jet dubbed VMS Eve, takes off with billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his crew for travel to the edge ...

Virgin Galactic flew its first-ever commercial mission today (June 29), sending a crew of four to suborbital space and back.

Virgin Galactic is expected to take another step forward this week in its return to space with its first commercial flight after facing some challenges over the years. The 90-minute suborbital ...

Virgin Galactic — the space tourism company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson — has returned its supersonic plane to the edge of space for the first time since 2021, ...

A Cosmic Oddity That Defies Expectations. The Andromeda galaxy, our closest spiral neighbor at about 2.5 million light-years away, has long fascinated astronomers.Surrounding it are dozens of ...

Experience Virgin Galactic Unity's Galactic 02 flight with these amazing views from inside and out of suborbital space plane VSS Unity. Passengers: Jon Goodwin, Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers.