For only the second time, VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic’s suborbital space plane, was transformed into a science laboratory. Galactic 05 successfully completed its mission on Nov. 2, but for Kellie Gerardi, Galactic 05 crewmember and Virgin Galactic Astronaut 021, the training and preparation for the flight goes back almost a decade. She sat down with NSF to detail what it takes to conduct commercial suborbital research.
After a nearly two-year pause in flights, starting after a deviation from controlled airspace during…
Seventeen years after Sir Richard Branson watched SpaceShipOne win the Ansari X-Prize, the English entrepreneur…
Virgin Galactic has successfully performed the first human spaceflight from Spaceport America, just south of…
Virgin Galatic took another step closer to realizing its long-fought dream of carrying paying customers…
