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.

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 ...

Space-tourism company Virgin Galactic expects private astronauts to pay more than $600,000 for a ticket on its new Delta-class SpaceShips An earlier version of this report provided an incorrect Wall ...

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc., the space tourism company founded by billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, said it remains on track to resume space tourism flights in fall 2026 and is exploring the ...

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 ...