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 ...

Businessman paid $1.5 million for ticket to space with Leonardo DiCaprio. — -- Sometime in the next few years, a Russian millionaire hopes to have some zero gravity fun with Leonardo DiCaprio ...

Billionaire Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson say he's determined to find out what went wrong during a test flight of his prototype space tourism rocket, killing one pilot and injuring another.

The Virgin Galactic spaceship that crashed on Friday was insured against losses totaling around $40-50 million, and the lead underwriter was American International Group, two insurance sources told ...

Virgin Galactic is an aerospace and space travel company that is part of British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group conglomerate. Virgin Galactic's first of seven commercial spaceflights ...

The company is also looking at using its mothership aircraft that releases spacecraft at high altitude as a carrier platform for other customers. Virgin Galactic is deep into development of its new ...

After assembling model rockets as a kid in rural Pennsylvania and dreaming of becoming an astronomer, Mike Moses embarked on a distinguished 17-year NASA career centered on human spaceflight — where ...