Sir Richard Branson has moved his rocket plane from its development base in California to what will be its operational centre in New Mexico. The transfer of the Unity vehicle and its mothership, Eve, ...

Virgin Galactic’s Unity spaceplane has completed its first rocket-powered flight, breaking the sound barrier in a successful supersonic test flight today nearly four years after the firm’s fatal crash ...

Virgin Galactic has pushed its Unity rocket plane faster and higher than it's ever been. Chief pilot, Scotsman Dave Mackay, and co-pilot, American Mike Masucci, took the vehicle to almost 90km in ...

Richard Branson has said space tourism is ‘tantalisingly close’ after the successful test of a rocket. The billionaire entrepreneur declared that Virgin Galactic was ‘back on track’ after the ...

Virgin Galactic have shared breathtaking photographs taken in space during the pioneering flight company’s successful test flight. The ‘spaceline,’ which is set to provide the world’s first passenger ...

RICHARD Branson’s space tourism company Virgin Galactic launched its first rocket-powered flight on its Unity spaceplane on Thursday, reaching supersonic speeds in the successful test flight, before ...