Virgin Launches First Adults-Only Cruise Ship Scarlet Lady
23 Feb 2020, 04:02 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Carrying more than 2,700 passengers and 1,100 crew, the ship will go into operation in April, and is the first of the three planned vessels for Virgin Voyages
The Ultimate Luxury: A Phone App to Order Champagne on Board a Cruise Ship
10 Dec 2019, 21:48 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady comes with on-demand champagne delivery service. Just shake your phone and a waiter will bring a bottle of Moet to your location
The Fuselage of Virgin’s New Spaceship Gets One of Its Tanks
3 Dec 2019, 12:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic announced the second spaceship in its lineup has received the Main Oxidiser Tank (MOT) at the beginning of December
Virgin Galactic Now Trains Civilians to Fly to Space
17 Nov 2019, 08:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin says it first customers, who had to pay around $250,000 for a ticket to space, have already been through “a number of flight preparation activities,”
This Is Virgin Galactic’s Second Spaceship
18 Sep 2019, 09:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just like the Unity, the new and still-unnamed ship will launch horizontally at 50,000 feet (15 km) from the underbelly of a two-bodied carrier aircraft
Virgin Galactic Now Working on Second Spaceship
1 Aug 2019, 15:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic says it completed the systems installation and main structure build of the wing of their second - or third - spaceship
Virgin Galactic to Become World’s First Publicly Listed Space Company
9 Jul 2019, 12:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson announces the company's plan to go public later this year, making it the first space entity to do so
Virgin Galactic Moving Staff and Spaceships to Spaceport America in New Mexico
13 May 2019, 13:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson says the comapny will begin operations at the New Mexico Spaceport America this summer
Virgin Galactic Astronaut Becomes First Woman to Get Commercial Astronaut Wings
10 Apr 2019, 15:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic astronauts, including chief instructor Beth Moses received the Commercial Astronaut Wings from the Federal Aviation Administration
Virgin Galactic Flies to Space Again, Breaks Down Barriers
25 Feb 2019, 14:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic’s chief astronaut instructor, Beth Moses, is the first to float freely in space onboard a commercial spaceship
Virgin Galactic Readies for New Supersonic Flight with NASA Payloads On Board
20 Feb 2019, 09:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This fifth powered flight will be close to a full commercial weight, as the Unity will be carrying NASA Flight Opportunity program research payloads
VSS Unity’s Rocket Motor Enters the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
11 Feb 2019, 12:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The CTN used on VSS Unity has a weight of 3,000 pounds and generates 320 kN of thrust, along with a burn duration of 60 seconds
Virgin Galactic Makes It to Space, Rich Average Joes to Follow
14 Dec 2018, 14:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceplane reached an altitude of 51.4 miles (82.7 km) during a test flight on Thursday, marking the ships first outing to space
Virgin Galactic First Flight to Space Imminent
12 Dec 2018, 10:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Flight will test new limits for altitude, air speed, loads, and thermal heating and it might also reach space for the first time
Virgin Galactic to Fly to Space by Christmas
3 Dec 2018, 10:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Richard Branson says Virgin Galactic's pilots plan to take the VSS Unity ship in its first trip to space by sometime before Christmas
Richard Branson to Launch Himself to Space “In Months”
9 Oct 2018, 14:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Richard Branson believes Virgin Galactic will begin test flights in weeks and he will fly to space within months, not years.
Virgin Galactic Spaceships to Take Off from Italy
9 Jul 2018, 06:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Virgin Galactic to build a spaceship that would operate from an Italian location, to be used for both research and space tourism.
Video Shows Richard Branson’s VSS Unity During Test Flight
31 May 2018, 14:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The second StarShipTwo, VSS Unity, is currently undergoing testing and on Monday it successfully completed its second powered flight.
Richard Branson’s SpaceShipTwo Aces New Supersonic Flight
30 May 2018, 07:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity successfully passes supersonic flight test, reaching Mach 1.9and a max altitude of 114,500 feet (35 km).
SpaceTime Enterprises Makes an Astronaut Out of Everyone
18 May 2018, 11:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / SpaceTime Enterprises to launch later this year the first immersive experience of the Earth as seen from orbit via virtual reality headsets.