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Virgin Galactic Postpones its Commercial Suborbital Tourism Flights to 2023
Virgin Galactic is again postponing the start of commercial service of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane from late 2022 to early 2023, blaming the latest delay on supply chain and labor issues. In the company’s first quarter earnings release May 5, Virgin Galactic said it expected to start commercial flights of its VSS Unity spaceplane in […]
Space Tourism Flights Poised to Continue with Virgin Galactic in 2022
Space Tourism Flights Set to Continue with Virgin Galactic in 2022 2021 was a great year for aerospace as more space flights took place in 2021 than any other year in space history. Especially with the space tourism flights in 2021, it became possible for civils to access space. Virgin Galactic was one of these […]
Virgin Galactic Aborts SpaceShipTwo Suborbital Spaceflight
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo aborted an attempted suborbital spaceflight Dec. 12 from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico. Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo aircraft, carrying the SpaceShipTwo vehicle named VSS Unity by the company, took off from Spaceport America in southern New Mexico at 10:24 a.m. Eastern. Piloting SpaceShipTwo were Dave Mackay, the company’s chief test pilot, and […]
Virgin Galactic prepares for its first spaceflight from New Mexico
Virgin Galactic announced Dec. 1 that is had rescheduled a powered test flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane for a window that opens Dec. 11 from Spaceport America in New Mexico. Pilots CJ Sturckow and David Mackay will fly the vehicle on a trajectory that will go above the 80-kilometer altitude that the company defines […]