MOJAVE, Calif. -- Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship climbed more than 50 miles high above California's Mojave Desert on Thursday, reaching for the first time what the company considers the boundary ...

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Virgin Galactic is expected to keep doing test flights and making improvements in terms of safety, altitude and weight capacity. It is still unclear when private citizens — including the more than 600 ...

Today, SpaceShipTwo completed its first powered test since the horrific crash in 2014 that killed one of its pilots. The craft, VSS Unity, took off from Mojave Air and Space Port aboard a plane called ...

The race to put tourists into space seems to be a glacially slow one most of the time, and then BOOM -- it suddenly takes a supersonic leap forward. That's the case with Richard Branson's long-delayed ...

Shares of Virgin Galactic climbed as a notice from the Federal Aviation Administration indicated that the company's next spaceflight test is on track to launch as early as Saturday. An FAA notice ...