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Virgin Galactic to ground its VSS Unity space plane next year: report

Virgin Galactic plans to pause flights with its VSS Unity suborbital space plane next year to ramp up work on its next-generation 'Delta class' vehicles.

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Virgin Galactic launches researchers to suborbital space on 5th commercial flight (video)

Virgin Galactic's reusable space plane VSS Unity aced its fifth commercial mission today (Nov. 2), continuing the one-flight-per-month tempo the company began this spring.

Space

Virgin Galactic set to launch Galactic 05 mission with research duo today (Nov. 2)

A pair of well-known scientists are flying on Virgin Galactic's fifth commercial mission, Galactic 05. The company's VSS Unity spaceplane and VMS Eve carrier aircraft are set to take off Thursday morning (Nov. 2).

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Virgin Galactic astronaut Kellie Gerardi is ready for broader access to space

Just days before her first spaceflight, Kellie Gerardi talks about the importance of microgravity research and making the final frontier more accessible for all.

Space

‘Callous, reckless, unethical’: scientists in row over rare fossils flown into space

‘Grand gesture’ condemned as an unethical publicity stunt that risked the loss of 2m-year-old human remains

The Guardian - UK

Branson Expresses Concern Over U.S. Congress’ Treatment Of Ukraine

Virgin Galactic founder fears diminishing support as lawmakers omit funding for war-torn nation

Zenger

South African hominin fossils were sent into space and scientists are enraged

When a Virgin Galactic commercial flight soared into space on 8 September 2023, there were two Virgin Galactic pilots, an instructor and three passengers on board – as well as two fossils of ancient prehuman relatives from South Africa. Timothy Nash, a businessman, carried a clavicle belonging to Australopithecus sediba…

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Archaeologists irked by Virgin Galactic carrying human ancestor remains to space: ‘This is not science’

‘I am horrified they were granted a permit’

The Independent UK

Virgin Galactic to launch next space tourist flight on Sept. 8

Virgin Galactic will launch 'Galactic 03' on Sept. 8, its third commercial spaceflight and eighth space mission overall.

Space

6 tourists, including a mother-daughter duo, successfully travel to space!

Humans have finally travelled to space! Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity has achieved this feat of taking the first group of tourists to space, and the group successfully landed there recently. A reusable rocket-powered space plane was used for this journey.

The Times of India

Fly along with Virgin Galactic's 1st private astronauts on landmark mission (video)

A recently released video gives us an astronaut's-eye view of Virgin Galactic's second-ever commercial spaceflight, which the company aced last week.

Space

Virgin Galactic takes tourists to edge of space

Virgin Galactic, the venture founded by UK billionaire Richard Branson, launched its first commercial flight to the edge of space after decades of promise, reported CNN. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Virgin Galactic sends its first tourist passengers into space

Virgin Galactic launched its first tourist passengers into the weightlessness of space Thursday, the culmination of a nearly two-decade commercial pursuit, the company said.

France 24

Virgin Galactic launch: First ever space tourists lift off aboard Unity rocket plane

Private Virgin Galatic launch included 18 year-old Anastatia Mayers, the youngest person ever to go to space

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Virgin Galactic launches 1st mother-daughter team and 1st Olympian to space on 2nd commercial flight (video)

Virgin Galactic flew its second-ever commercial mission today (Aug. 10), a flight that made history in multiple ways.

The Guardian - US

Virgin Galactic successfully flies tourists to space for first time

Six individuals were aboard VSS Unity space plane, including first mother-daughter duo to venture to space together

The Independent UK

Watch live as Virgin Galactic launches second commercial space flight

Watch live as Virgin Galactic launches its second commercial space flight.

The National (Scotland)

Scottish university student heads into space on first tourism flight

Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism flight has taken off from a launch site in the United States.

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Space tourists blast off aboard Virgin Galactic: Tech and Science Daily podcast

Virgin Galactic is set to launch its first space tourism flight with a paying customer on Thursday.

Evening Standard

British passenger, 80, on first Virgin Galactic space tourist flight says it was ‘completely surreal’

British ex-Olympian Jon Goodwin becomes only the second-ever person with Parkinson’s to join space flight

Evening Standard

Virgin Galactic: What’s it like to go on a sub-orbital space flight?

Here’s everything you need to know about how sub-orbital spaceflights work, what it feels like to go on one, and what your rights are

Fortune

UK billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is gearing up to send its first group of tourists to space after years of delays

The company founded back in 2004 is hitting a long-awaited milestone with ticketed tourists taking their first trip into space—now 800 more tourists are waiting for their shot to soar above the Earth.

The Independent UK

Virgin Galactic all set to fly its first tourists to the edge of space

Virgin Galactic is finally taking its first space tourists on a rocket ship ride after years of delays

Space

What time is Virgin Galactic's Galactic-02 space tourist launch today? Here's how to watch live.

Virgin Galactic's reusable spaceplane, VSS Unity, will launch its second commercial spaceflight mission today (Aug. 10). Here's how to follow the action.

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Meet the crew of Virgin Galactic's 2nd commercial spaceflight

Virgin Galactic has announced the crew of its second commercial spaceflight mission, set to launch Aug. 10.

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