The U.S. man-in-space program, Project Mercury, scored its greatest triumph last week, when with infinite precision, the robot-manned Mercury capsule MA4 was boosted into orbit, permitted to circle ...

Virgin Galactic was also involved the first time 20 humans were in space at once, a milestone notched on May 23 of last year.The allocations were similar on that day: six people on Unity (on a ...

Unity carried two Virgin Galactic pilots and a company astronaut trainer, along with three paying customers: researcher Alan Stern, back right at window, European investment manager Ketty ...

As a result, every Delta space plane will be able to generate 12 times more revenue per month than Unity can, Colglazier said, according to SpaceNews. (Virgin Galactic is currently charging ...

Virgin Galactic launches VSS Unity to edge of space before retiring vessel By . Deirdre Bardolf. Published June 8, 2024, 3:46 p.m. ET.

Three private citizens launched into space and landed safely back on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spacecraft, completing the company’s second spaceflight of 2024 and 12 missions to date.

The first surgery demonstration in space performed by a robot — controlled by surgeons on Earth — has marked a technological milestone for long-term spaceflight.