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Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is a British-American spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group conglomerate which retains an 11.9% stake through Virgin Investments Limited. [ 2] It is headquartered in California, and operates from New Mexico. The company develops commercial spacecraft and provides suborbital ...
List of Virgin Galactic launches. SpaceShipOne after its flight into space, June 2004. SpaceShipTwo (central fuselage) carried under its twin fuselage mother ship, White Knight Two . The following is a list of Virgin Galactic launches since 2003.
25. Virgin Galactic Unity 25 was a sub-orbital spaceflight by Virgin Galactic that took place on 25 May 2023. The flight used their SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity. The crew consisted of six Virgin Galactic employees. Unity 25 was the first spaceflight for the company since Unity 22 in 2021, when founder Richard Branson flew to space. [1]
Virgin Galactic has launched its first ever batch of private space tourists to the edge of space.. The Unity rocket plane took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico on Thursday, carried by a ...
Space tourists, from left, Jon Goodwin, Anastatia Mayers and her mother, Keisha Schahaff, are seen before boarding their Virgin Galactic flight at Spaceport America, near Truth or Consequences ...
Antigua native Keisha Schahaff spent three days training to make history on a Virgin Galactic space flight where she will be accompanied by her 18-year-old daughter. (TODAY) Keisha Schahaff, 46 ...
The 11 July 2021 flight was the first time more than three people flew suborbitally on a spaceflight and the first time more than one passenger flew on a suborbital spaceflight, and Branson was the first founder of a spaceflight company to fly to space on his own company's craft, using the USAF/NASA definition of space as above 50 miles.
Virgin Galactic owner Richard Branson rocketed into space Sunday, an edge-of-the-seat sub-orbital test flight intended to demonstrate his company's air-launched spaceplane is ready for passengers ...