Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The future of commercial space travel is took off in New Mexico on Thursday. Virgin Galactic, part of British billionaire Richard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Left to right: Anastatia Mayers, Jon Goodwin, and Keisha Schahaff are flying to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic's first ...

The future of commercial space travel is took off in New Mexico on Thursday. Virgin Galactic, part of British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group conglomerate, launched a ship bound for space ...

NEW YORK — Virgin Galactic is launching its first fully commercial flight of the SpaceShipTwo space plane, the company announced. The ship will carry four people and launch around 11:00 a.m. ET, which ...

For the first time in Virgin Galactic's 19-year existence, the private spaceflight company will launch three civilian customers — who either bought or won their seats on the VSS Unity — into space on ...

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