Virgin Galactic has just announced the winner of a free suborbital space ride on a rocket-powered plane. The lucky winner is Keisha S., a health and life coach and former flight attendant from Antigua in the Caribbean. The prize includes two seats — worth $450,000 each — so Keisha will take along her daughter, a…
Fancy a free flight to the edge of space aboard Virgin Galactic’s rocket-powered spaceplane? Shortly after returning to Earth following a ride on Virgin Galactic’s first fully crewed mission on Sunday, July 11, company founder Richard Branson announced it was giving away two free seats aboard the ship for an experience that will ordinarily cost…
WATCH LIVE: Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight Livestream Virgin Galactic is planning the first fully crewed space flight of its VSS Unity spaceplane today, Sunday, June 11. The original plan had been for the launch to begin at 9 a.m. ET (6 a.m. PT). However, this time has now been delayed by 90 minutes to…
WATCH LIVE: Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight Livestream Virgin Galactic is making final preparations for its first fully crewed flight to space, and you can watch the entire event in real time. Among the six-person crew on the rocket-powered VSS Unity space plane heading toward the Kármán line (a location about 62 miles above Earth…