More than a year has gone by since Virgin Galactic last sent a group of civilian passengers to the edge of space from the New Mexico desert. In June 2024, six space tourists boarded the company's VSS ...

Media covering Virgin Galactic flights often say the VSS Unity spaceship flew to “the edge of space,” but that may be a spaceflight misnomer. The confusion likely reflects the internationally accepted ...

The university known as the cradle of astronauts will soon send a few more folks to the final frontier. Twenty-eight alumni of Indiana-based Purdue have flown to space or been selected for spaceflight ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue aerospace engineering professor and student are about to take the classroom to new heights. On Tuesday, Virgin Galactic and Purdue University announced an upcoming ...

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic said it will resume taking private astronauts to the edge of space toward the end of next year. Virgin Galactic (NYSE: SPCE) said in a written earnings release ...

Namira Salim (Pakistan), Trevor Beattie (UK) and Ron Rosano (US) flew on Virgin Galactic's Galactic 04 mission. Salim became ...

The company expects revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025 to be approximately $300,000, primarily related to astronaut access fees. Forecasted free cash flow for Q4 2025 is expected to be between ...

Virgin Galactic has refined its projection for the start of private astronaut flights to sometime in the final quarter of 2026. After disclosing a delay in the start of those operations three months ...

An all-Purdue University crew is set to make history on a suborbital research flight with Virgin Galactic. Scheduled for launch in 2027, the mission, dubbed "Purdue 1," will see a professor, a student ...