Topic - Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide sub-orbital spaceflights to the paying public, along with suborbital space science missions and orbital launches of small satellites. Further in the future Virgin Galactic hopes to offer orbital human spaceflights as well. - Source: Wikipedia

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This photo provided Virgin Galactic shows passengers during Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight on Thursday August 10, 2023. Virgin Galactic rocketed to the edge of space with its first tourists Thursday. The space plane glided back to a runway landing at Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert, after a brief flight that gave passengers a few minutes of weightlessness.(Virgin Galactic via AP)

Virgin Galactic flies its first tourists to the edge of space

By Susan Montoya Bryan and Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This Thursday, June 29, 2023, image provided by Virgin Galactic show the rocket of the company's spaceplane igniting during a research flight that included Italian specialists who conducted a number of microgravity experiments. With the research flight complete, Virgin Galactic plans to begin commercial flights with paying ticket holders in August. (Virgin Galactic via AP)

Italian researchers reach the edge of space, flying aboard Virgin Galactic’s rocket-powered plane

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In this July 11, 2021, file photo Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson shows his Virgin Galactic made astronaut wings pin after his flight to space from Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, N.M. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)

3-2-1: Virgin Galactic will blast off rocket this month in bridge to commercial flights

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 20, 2021 file photo, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, participates in post launch briefing from its spaceport near Van Horn, Texas. A group of more than 20 current and former employees are accusing Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin of being a toxic work environment and not following proper safety protocols. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Workers at Bezos’ rocket company allege sexism, safety risks

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This Sept. 19, 2019, file photo shows Jeff Bezos speaking at the National Press Club in Washington. The Smithsonian Institution announced July 14, 2021, that Bezos, founder of Amazon and space-flight company Blue Origin, is donating $200 million to the National Air and Space Museum. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: Excited to see how space changes me

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This Sept. 8, 2016 photo made available by Virgin Galactic shows the company's Spaceship Unity and Mothership Eve. After reaching nearly 50,000 feet (15,000 meters), Unity will be released and drop for a moment or two before its rocket motor ignites to send the craft on a steep climb toward space. (Virgin Galactic via AP)

First female payload specialist for Virgin Galactic ‘ready to fly’

By Katherine Kokal and Palm Beach Post - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 19, 2019, file photo shows Jeff Bezos speaking at the National Press Club in Washington. The Smithsonian Institution announced July 14, 2021, that Bezos, founder of Amazon and space-flight company Blue Origin, is donating $200 million to the National Air and Space Museum. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

18-year-old joining Blue Origin’s 1st passenger spaceflight

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

We’re not all astronauts

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The rocket plane carrying Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and other crew members flies toward space from Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, N.M., Sunday, July 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson blasts off into space

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This combination of 2019 and 2016 file photos shows Jeff Bezos with a model of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, left, and Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket in Mojave, Calif. The two billionaires are putting everything on the line in July 2021 to ride their own rockets into space. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Mark J. Terrill)

Billionaire Blastoff: Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, riding own rockets into space

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this 2019 photo made available by NASA, Mercury 13 astronaut trainee Wally Funk visits the Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio. On Thursday, July 1, 2021, Blue Origin announced the early female aerospace pioneer will be aboard the company’s July 20 launch from West Texas, flying as an “honored guest.” (NASA via AP)

Richard Branson announces trip to space, ahead of Jeff Bezos

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This Saturday, May 22, 2021 image provided by Virgin Galactic shows the release of VSS Unity from VMS Eve and ignition of rocket motor over Spaceport America, N.M. Virgin Galactic finally has the federal government’s approval to start launching customers into space from New Mexico. Richard Branson’s rocketship company announced the Federal Aviation Administration’s updated license on Friday, June 25. It’s the final hurdle in Virgin Galactic’s years-long effort to send paying passengers on short space hops. (Virgin Galactic via AP)

Virgin Galactic gets FAA’s OK to launch customers to space

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This Saturday, May 22, 2021, image provided by Virgin Galactic shows the release of VSS Unity from VMS Eve and ignition of rocket motor over Spaceport America, N.M. Virgin Galactic completed its third spaceflight and the first ever spaceflight from Spaceport America, N.M. (Virgin Galactic via AP)

Virgin Galactic rocket ship ascends from New Mexico

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Virgin Galactic delays spaceflight test to May

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This photo provided by Virgin Galactic shows SpaceShipTwo Unity being released from the carrier mothership, VMS Eve for second successful glide flight in New Mexico on Thursday, June 25, 2020. Virgin Galactic is celebrating the second successful glide flight of its spaceship over Spaceport America in southern New Mexico. (Virgin Galactic via AP)

Timing of next Virgin Galactic flight still up in the air

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press