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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 ...
VSS Unity (Virgin Space Ship Unity, Registration: N202VG), previously referred to as VSS Voyager, was a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. It was the second SpaceShipTwo-spacecraft to be built and was used as part of the Virgin Galactic fleet. VSS Unity [26] was unveiled on 19 February 2016.
The 11 July 2021 flight was the first time more than three people flew suborbitally on a spaceflight and the first time more than one passenger flew on a suborbital spaceflight, and Branson was the first founder of a spaceflight company to fly to space on his own company's craft, using the USAF/NASA definition of space as above 50 miles.
Private Virgin Galatic launch included 18 year-old Anastatia Mayers, the youngest person ever to go to space
Virgin Galactic — the space tourism company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson — finally launched its first space tourists to the edge of the cosmos, a major step toward delivering ...
Virgin Galactic laying off workers, pausing flights as it prepares for new Delta spacehips' launch in 2026 at New Mexico's Spaceport America
Virgin MotherShip (VMS) Eve [3] (Tail number: N348MS [4]) is a carrier mothership for Virgin Galactic and launch platform for SpaceShipTwo-class Virgin SpaceShips. WhiteKnightTwo at its rollout and christening ceremony, July 28, 2008
Private Virgin Galatic launch includes youngest person ever to go to space