A three-man crew from Italy has soared more than 80 kilometres above the New Mexico desert aboard a Virgin Galactic rocket plane. The flight inaugurated Virgin ...

Virgin Galactic's newest space plane took to the skies again today (July 26) for its third rocket-powered test flight, reaching higher in the atmosphere than the company had previously. The VSS Unity ...

The impressive flight cadence of Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane won't last much longer. Unity flew for the sixth time in as many months last week, carrying two research scientists and another ...

The flight marks the first time Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane reached space ahead of plans to fire paying customers there next year SIR Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has reached space ...

Virgin Galactic has pushed its Unity rocket plane faster and higher than it's ever been. Chief pilot, Scotsman Dave Mackay, and co-pilot, American Mike Masucci, took the vehicle to almost 90km in ...

This morning, Virgin Galactic conducted the second powered flight test of its spaceplane, the VSS Unity, over the Mojave Desert just 54 days after the company ignited the vehicle’s engine for the ...