The impressive flight cadence of Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane won't last much longer. Unity flew for the sixth time in as many months last week, carrying two research scientists and another ...

Virgin Galactic's newest space plane took to the skies again today (July 26) for its third rocket-powered test flight, reaching higher in the atmosphere than the company had previously. The VSS Unity ...

A three-man crew from Italy has soared more than 80 kilometres above the New Mexico desert aboard a Virgin Galactic rocket plane. The flight inaugurated Virgin ...

This morning, Virgin Galactic conducted the second powered flight test of its spaceplane, the VSS Unity, over the Mojave Desert just 54 days after the company ignited the vehicle’s engine for the ...

MOJAVE, California -- Virgin Galactic is getting ready to fly again. Sixteen months after a fatal accident sidelined the private spaceflight company, Virgin Galactic presented its new and improved ...

Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, dubbed the VSS Unity, rolls out under the spotlights at the company’s hangar in Mojave, Calif. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) MOJAVE, Calif. – ...

Flying faster and higher than ever before on its third test flight, Richard Branson's space plane soars closer to beginning passenger flights. Kent was a senior managing editor at CNET News. A veteran ...

Chief pilot, Scotsman Dave Mackay, and co-pilot, American Mike Masucci, took the vehicle to almost 90km in altitude above California's Mojave Desert before gliding back down to Earth. The test flight ...

February 17, 2014 (BENTIU) – A crew member was killed and three others injured on Monday when a cargo plane carrying relief supplies crashed in Bentiu, South Sudan’s Unity state capital. A cargo plane ...

Haddad, military chief of Libya's UN-recognised government in Tripoli, died with seven others when the plane crashed near the ...