This was Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity's last flight. Six passengers and crew flew to an altitude of 54.4 miles (87.5 km).

Virgin Galactic’s seventh commercial research mission took off out of New Mexico on Saturday, its last before the company retires its VSS Unity spaceplane. The commercial spacecraft embarked on ...

Virgin Galactic is getting ready for its second and last spaceflight of the year at Spaceport America. On Friday, leaders took KOB 4 on a special tour and shared what’s next for the company. Unity, ...

It was Virgin Galactic's seventh commercial spaceflight mission and the company's second of 2024. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

VSS Unity, attached to its VMS Eve mothership aircraft, takes off from Spaceport America June 8 on the Galactic 07 suborbital spaceflight. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust Updated 6:15 p.m. Eastern with ...

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. is targeting a launch window that opens June 8 for its milestone Galactic 07 mission. The Galactic 07 mission will be the final flight of Virgin Galactic’s SPCE Unity ...

Correction, Oct. 16, 2024: This story originally stated a team from Virgin Galactic traveled to an altitude of about 53 miles and crossed the Kármán line. That has been clarified, as the team did not ...

Last year, Virgin Galactic seemed to finally be hitting a stride toward making commercial suborbital spaceflight. The company flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space six times in six ...