Richard Branson dismisses woke backlash against ‘extraordinary’ Virgin Galactic spaceflight

Shoeless Richard Branson dismisses woke backlash against ‘extraordinary’ Virgin Galactic spaceflight after left-wing pundits questioned if his billionaire space race with Jeff Bezos was ‘appropriate’ By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 07:34 BST, 14 July 2021 | Updated: 08:20 BST, 14 July 2021 A shoeless Richard Branson hit back at the woke backlash to his Virgin Galactic spaceflight … Read more

Virgin Galactic slumps 15% on plan to sell shares and build spaceships

Virgin Galactic slumps 15% on plan to sell shares and build more spaceships following Branson’s successful test flight By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 12 July 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 12 July 2021 Virgin Galactic said it is raising up to £360million of cash through a share sale just a … Read more

Virgin Galactic reveals plans to launch a scientist into space

Virgin Galactic has revealed plans to send a scientist to the edge of space on a mission that will see them study spacesuit underwear in flight and make water ‘jiggle’ in low gravity.  Kellie Gerardi, a bioastronautics expert for the International Institute of Astronautical Sciences (IIAS), will travel on VSS Unity when commercial flights begin. … Read more

Virgin Galactic shares jump after announcing it will test the SpaceShipTwo Unity on Saturday

Unlike other commercial spaceflight companies, such as Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic initiates its flights without using a traditional rocket launch. Instead, the firm launches its passenger-laden SpaceShipTwo and other craft from a carrier plane, dubbed WhiteKnightTwo. WhiteKnightTwo is a custom-built, four-engine, dual-fuselage jet aircraft, designed to carry SpaceShipTwo up to an altitude of around 50,000 … Read more

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic faces delays over ‘wear and tear’ issues on mothership

Unlike other commercial spaceflight companies, such as Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic initiates its flights without using a traditional rocket launch. Instead, the firm launches its passenger-laden SpaceShipTwo and other craft from a carrier plane, dubbed WhiteKnightTwo. WhiteKnightTwo is a custom-built, four-engine, dual-fuselage jet aircraft, designed to carry SpaceShipTwo up to an altitude of around 50,000 … Read more

Virgin Galactic unveils new VSS Imagine spaceship

Virgin Galactic has unveiled a new mirrored spaceship called VSS Imagine that is designed to ‘reflect the environment around it’ as it moves through clouds and out to space. The new spaceplane is the third generation craft developed by the New Mexico-based Virgin Galactic and will be more modular, allowing for more rapid development as … Read more

Virgin Galactic boss’s rocket-fuelled $21m payday

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space tourism firm handed its new chief executive a $21 million windfall for his first five months in the job.  Virgin Galactic appointed Michael Colglazier, a former Disneyland theme park boss, as chief executive and president last July.  His $21.25 million (£15 million) pay packet – covering just over five … Read more

Virgin Galactic postpones its first space tourism until 2022 to allow additional ‘technical checks’

Unlike other commercial spaceflight companies, such as Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic initiates its flights without using a traditional rocket launch. Instead, the firm launches its passenger-laden SpaceShipTwo and other craft from a carrier plane, dubbed WhiteKnightTwo. WhiteKnightTwo is a custom-built, four-engine, dual-fuselage jet aircraft, designed to carry SpaceShipTwo up to an altitude of around 50,000 … Read more

Virgin Galactic announces new February 13 launch window for SpaceShipTwo Unity test flight

Virgin Galactic has announced a new flight window for the next test flight of its SpaceShipTwo Unity. The window will open on February 13 with opportunities to fly throughout February, the company said, pending good weather conditions and technical readiness. The flight, which will take off from Spaceport America in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto … Read more

Mankind has made contact with an alien ‘Galactic Federation’, Israeli official says

Mankind has made contact with an alien ‘Galactic Federation’ but it has been kept secret because ‘humanity isn’t ready’, former head of Israel’s space security program claims Haim Eshed said aliens are real and secretly in contact with America and Israel He claimed the ‘Galactic Federation’ runs an underground Mars base with the US The … Read more