This was Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity's last flight. Six passengers and crew flew to an altitude of 54.4 miles (87.5 km).
SPACEPORT AMERICA — Kellie Gerardi, a payload specialist and bioastronautics researcher with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences, exited the VSS Unity on Thursday morning after a ...
Virgin Galactic informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece of hardware on its most recent suborbital flight. Virgin Galactic's sixth commercial spaceflight may be ...
More than a year has gone by since Virgin Galactic last sent a group of civilian passengers to the edge of space from the New Mexico desert. In June 2024, six space tourists boarded the company's VSS ...
Media covering Virgin Galactic flights often say the VSS Unity spaceship flew to “the edge of space,” but that may be a spaceflight misnomer. The confusion likely reflects the internationally accepted ...