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    With Blue Origin passengers set, suborbital tourism arrives after decades of work

    by Anthony Iemole July 15, 2021
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    After years of development, suborbital space tourism looks ready to lift off after Virgin Galactic successfully launched its first fully-crewed suborbital mission to space on July 11 following several prior crewed suborbital tests. The Unity 22 mission came just days before Blue Origin is scheduled to make its first passenger suborbital mission no earlier than Tuesday, July 20 using its New Shepard system. 

    Both companies have been developing suborbital spacecraft for over a decade, with the ultimate goal of carrying paying customers to the edge of space and back along with an added commitment to take science experiments along on some but not all of those flights as well.

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    by Justin Davenport July 11, 2021
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    Virgin Galactic successfully makes first human spaceflight from New Mexico

    by Mihir Neal May 22, 2021
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    Virgin Galactic has successfully performed the first human spaceflight from Spaceport America, just south of…

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    Preparing for “Earth to Earth” space travel and a competition with supersonic airliners

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    VSS Unity aborts after engine start, safely lands with crew back at Spaceport America

    by Chris Gebhardt & Thomas Burghardt December 12, 2020
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    Point-To-Point transportation gains boost via NASA/Virgin Galactic SAA

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    A Space Act Agreement (SAA) between NASA, Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company (TSC) has…

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    VSS Unity Arrives at Spaceport America for Commercial Operations

    by Thomas Burghardt February 13, 2020
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    Carried by her mothership VMS Eve, Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity has arrived at Spaceport America…

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    Virgin Galactic assemble primary structures for second SpaceShipTwo

    by Chris Bergin September 17, 2019
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    Virgin Galactic to move into Spaceport America for spaceport operations

    by Chris Bergin May 10, 2019
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    VSS Unity completes third powered flight – achieves Mach 2.47

    by Chris Bergin July 26, 2018
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    Branson pride in VSS Unity’s test flight success

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    Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity conducted her second powered test flight on Tuesday, taking another step…

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    SpaceShipTwo’s 2018 test campaign returns to powered flight

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    by Chris Bergin June 30, 2016
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    While Virgin Galactic prepare to restart test operations with its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, the company has…

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    Moses looking to guide VSS Unity to her North Star

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    February 19, 2016

    Virgin Galactic’s Senior Vice President of Operations, Mike Moses, spoke of the goal of installing a…

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    Virgin Galactic unveils Cosmic Girl, dedicated LauncherOne aircraft

    by Chris Gebhardt and Nate Moeller December 4, 2015
    December 4, 2015

    Virgin Galactic – part of the Virgin corporation headed by Sir Richard Branson – has…

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    Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne to utilize a dedicated aircraft

    by Chris Bergin September 14, 2015
    September 14, 2015

    Due to customer demand, Virgin Galactic claims it has nearly doubled the amount of payload…

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    Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo fails during test flight

    by Chris Bergin October 31, 2014
    October 31, 2014

    One pilot has died and another seriously injured during a test flight failure of Virgin…

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    by Chris Bergin July 15, 2014
    July 15, 2014

    The British government continued its steady path towards recovering its space ambitions by revealing visions…

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    by Marshall Murphy August 29, 2013
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