Virgin Galactic grounded after pin ‘detaches’ on space tourism voyage
In space, no one can hear a pin drop. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic was forced to ground its rocket after a part fell off during its first space tourism flight…
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic flies its first tourists to the edge of space
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic rocketed a handful of tourists, including a former British Olympian and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean, to the edge of space on Thursday. The feat…
Meet the people who have spent $300,000 or more to travel to space
Sharon Hagle waited over 60 years to go suborbital. In 1961, when she was in sixth grade, she sat transfixed, listening to the radio as astronaut Alan Shepard became the…