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Virgin Galactic was founded in 2004 by British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, who had previously founded the Virgin Group and the Virgin Atlantic airline, and who had a long personal history of balloon and surface record-breaking activities. As part of Branson's promotion of the firm, he has added a variation of the Virgin Galactic livery to ...
Although not a Virgin Galactic launcher, SpaceShipOne was the direct predecessor of the Virgin Galactic vehicles, and served to demonstrate the feasibility of the concept. SpaceShipOne was an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 3,000 ft/s (900 m/s), using a hybrid rocket ...
Virgin Galactic Unity 25 was a sub-orbital spaceflight by Virgin Galactic that took place on 25 May 2023. The flight used their SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity. The crew consisted of six Virgin Galactic employees. Unity 25 was the first spaceflight for the company since Unity 22 in 2021, when founder Richard Branson flew to space. [1]
The flight of VSS (Virgin Spaceship) Unity that Crane mentioned would take place on June 8. Called Galactic 07, it would be Unity’s seventh flight with paying space tourists (and its last ...
Virgin Galactic has taken three of its earliest customers to space, some of whom have waited nearly 20 years for the experience. These Virgin Galactic ticket holders have waited more than a decade ...
Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE) is out of the space tourism business -- at least for a while. On Saturday, June 8, Virgin Galactic's "Galactic 07" mission successfully took off, briefly visited space ...
Virgin Galactic Unity 22 was a sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity which launched on 11 July 2021. [1] The crew consisted of pilots David Mackay and Michael Masucci as well as passengers Sirisha Bandla , Colin Bennett, Beth Moses , and Richard Branson .
Private Virgin Galatic launch included 18 year-old Anastatia Mayers, the youngest person ever to go to space