Virgin Galactic is an aerospace and space travel company that is part of British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group conglomerate.

Virgin Galactic's first of seven commercial spaceflights occurred in June 2023. For more than a year, its missions have been on a hiatus.

Virgin Galactic began developing an upgraded vehicle designed to be reused for faster turnaround time between flights, expected to resume in 2026.

More than a year has gone by since Virgin Galactic last sent a group of from the New Mexico desert.

In June 2024, six space tourists boarded the company's VSS Unity spaceplane for what would be the vehicle's seventh and final civilian suborbital trip within about a year. Since then, the spaceflight company owned by billionaire Richard Branson has been that will one day r

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