virgin galactic
Astronomy Cast 350: SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipOne is the spacecraft created by Scaled Composites to win the $10 million Ansari X-Prize in 2003. It was the…
Stunning Footage from SpaceShipTwo’s Third Rocket-Powered Flight
Virgin Galactic released video from SpaceShipTwo's flight test last Friday, January 10, 2014. This was the third supersonic, rocket-powered test…
SpaceShipTwo Goes Supersonic in Third Rocket-Powered Test Flight
2014 should be the year that Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) brings passengers on suborbital space flights, and the company started…
Proposed Balloon Ride Would Let You See The Blackness Of Space
Doesn't that look fun? A startup company is proposing to send customers 19 miles (30 kilometers) into the air via…
Ride Along With SpaceShipTwo: Tail Footage Video of Latest Test Flight
Yesterday, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo successfully completed its second supersonic rocket-powered test flight. In our previous article, we were able to…
Virgin Galactic: We Don’t Anticipate Motion Sickness
When the spaceship Enterprise -- Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, not the Star Trek spacecraft -- fired its rocket engines for the…
- Aeronautics
- Astronauts
- Citizen Science
- Commercial Space
- Earth
- Solar System
- Space Exploration
- Space Flight
- SpaceShipTwo
- Suborbital
- Virgin Galactic
SpaceShipTwo Fires Rocket Engines for First Ever Supersonic Test Flight- Photos & Video
SpaceShipTwo fires her rocket motor in flight for 1st time on April 29, 2013. Credit: MarsScientific.com Updated with more Photos…
Virgin Galactic Announces New Satellite Launcher
Caption: Richard Branson at the Farnborough International Airshow showing a model of LauncherOne. Credit: Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic’s latest venture…
Former Space Shuttle Manager Mike Moses Joins Virgin Galactic
[/caption] One of the most respected members of NASA’s space shuttle program has joined Virgin Galactic as the commercial space…
Watch SpaceShipTwo’s First Feathered Flight
On May 4, 2011 Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo achieved a major milestone by flying for the first time using its "feathered"…