Virgin Galactic's first space tourists blasted off from New Mexico, carrying three people to the edge of space. Two won tickets in a sweepstake and there other individual paid $250,000 for his seat.

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It’s been more than a year since Virgin Galactic paused commercial spaceflights from New Mexico’s Spaceport to make ...

Aug. 2—Virgin Galactic is planning a new astronaut campus and training facility in southern New Mexico where its high-dollar customers will prepare for their rides into suborbit, the company ...

Spaceport officials said the facility in southern New Mexico will see a decrease in activity and revenue during Virgin Galactic's pause. But if the company can complete the ship and fly more ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Virgin Galactic on Friday put off plans to make another attempt at a rocket-powered flight from New Mexico to the fringe of space, saying it needed more time for technical checks.

The FAA said the rocketship carrying Branson and five Virgin Galactic employees veered off course during its descent back to New Mexico on July 11. The deviation put the ship outside the air ...

Virgin Galactic’s spaceship VSS Unity has landed in the New Mexico desert after its first glide flight from Spaceport America as the company moves towards commercial operations.

Virgin Galactic-Test Flight This photo provided by Virgin Galactic shows SpaceShipTwo Unity being released from the carrier mothership, VMS Eve for second successful glide flight in New Mexico on ...

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