Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo vehicle glides back to Spaceport America after its Galactic 01 suborbital flight June 29. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust Updated 4:40 p.m. Eastern with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The future of commercial space travel is took off in New Mexico on Thursday. Virgin Galactic, part of British billionaire Richard ...

This was CNBC's live blog covering Virgin Galactic's first commercial spaceflight, Galactic 01. Space tourism company Virgin Galactic, founded by Sir Richard Branson in 2004, completed its ...

Editor's note: You can see what the whole flight was like by clicking on the video at the top of the note. British billionaire Richard Branson managed to make his mark in the history of space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A silver-white space plane fires its rocket engine with the curve of earth and the blackness of space in the background. On pace ...

Both SpaceX and Blue Origin have dabbled in space tourism, launching a handful of paying customers into space aboard their rockets. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has been promising a different ...

For the first time in Virgin Galactic's 19-year existence, the private spaceflight company will launch three civilian customers — who either bought or won their seats on the VSS Unity — into space on ...