When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Virgin Galactic shared an awe-inspiring video from the final flight of its VSS Unity spaceplane.

This was Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity's last flight. Six passengers and crew flew to an altitude of 54.4 miles (87.5 km).

Update for Oct. 5: This story was updated at 4 p.m. ET (2000 GMT) with comments from a Virgin Galactic representative concerning launch time. Virgin Galactic is keeping pace with the company's monthly ...

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 ...

On pace with its once-a-month flight goal, Virgin Galactic is about to embark on its fifth commercial mission, and its final flight of 2023. Galactic 05 is scheduled to lift off this Thursday (Nov. 2) ...

After building to this point for over a decade, Virgin Galactic has completed its first commercial flight. After launching aboard the mothership VMS Eve, the spaceship VSS Unity reached an altitude of ...

Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. today announced that VSS Unity successfully reached space, completing the Company’s fourth rocket-powered spaceflight. Today’s flight was the 22nd test flight of VSS ...

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity last week completed its seventh flight over the Mojave Desert, the first since last summer. The flight was designed to validate work completed during recent months of ...

Jul.11 -- Billionaire Richard Branson comments at a press conference Sunday following a test flight of the VSS Unity space plane with a crew of five Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. employees.

Today marks an exciting milestone in our shared quest to open space to change the world for good. For the first time, a spaceship built by our manufacturing arm, The Spaceship Company, and operated by ...