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Virgin Galactic’s new SpaceShipTwo gets off the ground, two years after fatal mishap

Virgin Galactic sent its second SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, into the air for the first time today – tucked securely… Read More

Virgin Galactic receives FAA license to fly SpaceShipTwo – and it’s taxiing on runway

Virgin Galactic says it’s received an operator license from the Federal Aviation Administration for flying its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane into outer… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture gets set to pick up the pace for spaceship test flights

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, plans to accelerate its current once-every-eight-weeks schedule for flight… Read More

Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin highlight small steps toward giant space leaps

In the past few weeks, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space venture and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture have both… Read More

VSS Unity: Virgin Galactic christens a reborn SpaceShipTwo, with assist from Stephen Hawking

MOJAVE, Calif. – Sixteen months after Virgin Galactic’s first SpaceShipTwo rocket plane was lost amid tragedy, the second SpaceShipTwo was christened… Read More

Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson ribs space billionaires amid Blue Origin buzz

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture may have done another flight test, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX is making… Read More

Stephen Hawking will help Virgin Galactic roll out second SpaceShipTwo on Feb. 19

More than a year after the first SpaceShipTwo rocket plane was destroyed in a fatal test flight, Virgin Galactic says… Read More

Virgin Galactic gets a 747 jet to serve as flying launch pad for its LauncherOne rocket

Virgin Galactic showed off its latest mothership today: a Boeing 747-400 jet that it acquired from its corporate cousins at… Read More

NTSB’s SpaceShipTwo findings put more pressure on FAA in commercial space

The recommendations coming out of a federal investigation of last October’s fatal SpaceShipTwo breakup are likely to add to the challenges… Read More

Richard Branson updates progress on Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo

Richard Branson updated the Virgin Galactic blog today with news of what’s going on with the company’s second SpaceShipTwo. Virgin… Read More

SpaceShipTwo crashes in desert, one pilot dead, one seriously injured

It’s a rough week in the spaceflight world. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has crashed during a test flight over the Mojave Desert… Read More