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).

Jun. 6—It's almost time for VSS Unity to stand down. The spaceship's last commercial flight out of Spaceport America is Saturday. Then, it'll be all hands on deck for spaceflight company Virgin ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blue Origin paused its space tourism flights to focus on its lunar lander and New Glenn launches in Florida, creating an ...

Virgin Galactic is preparing to land among the stars. On Wednesday, Virgin Galactic said they were working on its final preparations at its base in New Mexico as the VSS Unity is scheduled to launch ...

Two months after reaching the edge of space for the first time, Virgin Galactic's spacecraft Unity has done it again. Virgin Galactic sent three human beings on Unity for the first time in Friday's ...

Space tourism companies are redefining commercial spaceflight, offering orbital missions or suborbital experiences for paying passengers. SpaceX leads with Crew Dragon orbital flights to the ISS, ...