by Calum Wilson | Jun 7, 2024 | Space
Virgin Galactic’s ‘Galactic 07’ flight window will open on June 8, 2024, the company’s final mission for the VSS Unity; its SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. “‘Galactic 07’ will mark and celebrate...
by Victoria Tozer-Pennington | Jul 2, 2021 | Editorial Comment, Space
In the billionaire race to be the first on a commercial flight into the edge of space, Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson plans to pip Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos with a flight planned for July 11. (Bezos first planned space flight is set for July 20). “Astronaut 001”...