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Galactic 02: Virgin Galactic completes first private astronaut spaceflight Third Successful Spaceflight in Just Over Three Months. Historic Mission Flew First Olympian, First Female Astronauts from Caribbean and Most Women Flown in a Single Mission to Space. ‘Galactic 03,’ the Company’s Third Commercial Spaceflight, Planne...
11 Aug, 2023, 07.41 AM ISTVirgin Galactic completes first commercial space flight, ‘Galactic 01’ Today, our team successfully flew six people and more than a dozen research payloads to space in VSS Unity, our unique, suborbital science lab. This historic flight was our first commercial flight and our first dedicated commercial research mission ...
30 Jun, 2023, 10.43 PM ISTWatch: Virgin Galactic completes final test flight Virgin Galactic has completed a final test flight before taking paying customers on brief trips to space. Six of the company’s employees landed Thursday morning at Spaceport America in southern New Mexico. The flight included a few minutes of weight...
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Virgin Galactic set to launch first commercial spaceflight services from June 29 Virgin Galactic is set to finally begin commercial spaceflights, a major milestone for the company founded in 2004 by British billionaire Richard Branson. It's first paying customers are a three-member crew from the Italian Air Force and National Re...
29 Jun, 2023, 04.29 PM ISTWatch: Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic complete successful space flight Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson has reached space aboard his own winged rocket ship, vaulting the nearly 71-year-old founder past fellow billionaire and rival Jeff Bezos, who will fly to space in a craft of his own nine days from now. (AP)Watch: R...
12 Jul, 2021, 04.01 AM ISTWatch: Virgin Galactic rocket ship ascends from New Mexico Virgin Galactic on Saturday made its first rocket-powered flight from New Mexico to the fringe of space in a manned shuttle, as the company forges toward offering tourist flights to the edge of the Earth's atmosphere. (AP)Watch: Virgin Galactic rock...
23 May, 2021, 09.04 AM ISTWatch: Virgin Galactic unveils cabin interior of spaceship Virgin Galactic unveiled the cabin interior of its SpaceShipTwo Tuesday. The firm says the cabin was deliberately sized to allow for out-of-seat weightlessness experiences for passengers onboard. The cabin is fitted with 12 windows for passengers to...
29 Jul, 2020, 04.49 PM ISTVirgin Galactic vs Blue Origin: Which one can give you better flight experience to Space? If you are one of those who are excited for space travel, you have now two options to choose from. But there will be marked differences in the space flight experience offered by Virgin Galactic from that of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. We explain the cr...
22 Jul, 2021, 10.56 AM ISTMeet Sirisha Bandla: India-born woman set to go to space alongside Richard Branson Sirisha Bandla will become the second Indian-born woman to fly into space on July 11. She is one of the five people alongside Virgin Galactic’s billionaire founder Richard Branson to travel to space in the company’s fourth crewed test space flight. ...
10 Jul, 2021, 04.52 PM ISTVirgin Galactic rolls out space tourism rocket Virgin Galactic rolled out a new version of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket as it prepares to return to flight testing for the first time since a 2014 accident destroyed the original craft, killing a pilot.Virgin Galactic rolls out space touri...
20 Feb, 2016, 09.27 AM ISTSpace tourism projects at a glance Virgin Galactic later this month in Mojave, California, is preparing to roll out its new SpaceShipTwo, a vehicle the company hopes will one day take tourists to the edge of space.Space tourism projects at a glance
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