NEW DELHI (AP) — India successfully carried out Saturday the first of a series of key test flights after overcoming a technical glitch ahead of its planned mission to take astronauts into space by 2025, the space agency said. The test involved launching a module to outer space and bringing […]
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Virgin Galactic launched its fourth suborbital space flight in as many months Friday, sending two company pilots, an astronaut trainer and three space tourists to the edge of space and back. Carried aloft by Virgin’s twin-fuselage carrier jet, the VSS Unity spaceplane was released at an altitude of about 45,000 […]
People around the world watched the flight Friends of astronaut Jon Goodwin gathered at a church in Staffordshire to watch his space flight. Members of the North Staffordshire Parkinson’s Support Group watched him take off for the edge of space on the Virgin Galactic rocket plane. The 80-year-old Olympian, who […]
Anastatia works at a Mexican restaurant in Aberdeen and is studying for a degree in philosophy and physics at university A physics student who won a place on Virgin Galactic’s second commercial flight into space kept the “dream” news a secret from her colleagues. Anastatia Mayers and her mother Keisha […]
Virgin Galactic will launch its first commercial flight to the edge of space with a crew of six astronauts at 1500 UTC today. If successful, Richard Branson’s space firm will join a small club of companies, along with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, that can ferry paying […]
Four-and-a-half years after an initial sub-orbital test flight, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is finally ready to begin commercial operations with the launch Thursday of a six-man crew, including three Italian researchers, on an up-and-down flight to the edge of space aboard the company’s winged spaceplane. “We’re launching The Spaceline for […]
Offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to wealthy space tourists, Blue Origin successfully flew its first crewed mission last summer. The 10-minute rocket-powered ride to the edge of space will take six passengers more than 60 miles above the Earth’s surface and allow them to experience sweeping views of […]
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is gearing up to launch its fourth crewed New Shepard flight Tuesday — a 10-minute rocket-powered thrill ride to the edge of space and back carrying five wealthy space tourists and the spacecraft’s chief designer. Gary Lai, one of Blue Origin’s first employees and the architect […]