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  • Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo First Spaceflight

    Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo First Spaceflight

    After watching VSS Unity, the first Spaceship built for regular passenger service soar into Space, Richard pens a heartfelt letter to his grandchildren. “I used to think of Space as a destination, but now I realize its journey with some amazing milestones along the way. Today we pass the most significant of them all as…

  • VSS Unity – Second Supersonic Flight

    VSS Unity – Second Supersonic Flight

    Richard Branson joined Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company teams on the Mojave Air and Space Port flight line to witness VSS Unity’s second successful, supersonic, rocket powered test flight. SpaceshipTwo Unity rocketed to an altitude of 114,500 feet, reaching a speed of Mach 1.9 before gliding back to the Mojave Desert for landing. “It…

  • VSS Unity Glide Flight 03

    VSS Unity Glide Flight 03

    Richard Branson stops by Mojave, CA with his friend Professor Brian Cox to witness VSS Unity Glide Flight 03 test flight, and share his thoughts about progress and innovation in our mission to open space access. February 2017

  • Elevating Unity – Episode 2: Glide Flight

    Elevating Unity – Episode 2: Glide Flight

    On December 3, 2016, our new SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, flew freely for the first time. This important test marks the first time that a vehicle built by our manufacturing organization, The Spaceship Company, has flown fully under its own control. In this video, Lead Test Pilot, Mark “Forger” Stucky, explains what it’s like flying VSS…

  • Virgin Galactic Elevating Unity

    Virgin Galactic Elevating Unity

    On September 8, 2016, our new SpaceShipTwo–VSS Unity–took to the skies for the first time. This is first ever flight of a vehicle built by our manufacturing organization, The Spaceship Company. In this video, Mike Moses–our Senior Vice President of Operations, and a NASA veteran who oversaw dozens of successful flights to space–helps explain this…

  • Unveiling Virgin Galactic’s new spaceship, VSS Unity

    Unveiling Virgin Galactic’s new spaceship, VSS Unity

    Celebrating Unity – Our Journey We are proud to introduce not only our brand new vehicle ‘Virgin Spaceship Unity‘, but also some of our incredible team who are making our dream of opening up space to change the world for good, a reality. Professor Stephen Hawking Welcomes VSS Unity We were honoured to have Professor…