Tomorrow’s flight will be the first for Unity since it reached an altitude of 82.7 kilometers, for sixty seconds, before beginning its gliding descent, marking the first time the ship reached the edge ...

Virgin Galactic's supersonic space plane soared into the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere Thursday for a milestone test flight. It indicates the company is not far off from sending tourists to ...

Experience Virgin Galactic Unity's Galactic 02 flight with these amazing views from inside and out of suborbital space plane VSS Unity. Passengers: Jon Goodwin, Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers.

For a few minutes on Jan. 26, 20 people were in space at the same time, tying a record set just last May. Virgin Galactic informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece ...

Not only did Virgin Galactic’s rocket-powered plane, VSS Unity travel to a record altitude of nearly 56 miles, it also reached a top speed of Mach 3.0. And just for the record books — this time it ...

Throughout the course of human spaceflight, astronauts have conducted research on anything from muscle atrophy in microgravity to the psychological effects of long-duration missions. But even though ...