Frederick Sturckow News Today

The International Space Station made history 25 years ago today, and NASA marked the occasion by sharing two very special photographs.

Muir Beach resident Ron Rosano spent a few suborbital minutes gazing at Earth on a Virgin Galactic craft. The price for the 57-minute round-trip flight was $200,000.

Former NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez said the film adaptation of his life story, "A Million Miles Away," premiering Friday on Prime Video, reminded him of the power of his accomplishments.

One of the biggest days in history is here, and the first flight for a paying space tourist has gone into space. Who are the VSS Unity crew? And who are the three tourist among them?

The Galactic 02 mission will send a crew of six into orbit - including three tourists - aboard the VSS Unity spaceplane when it blasts off from New Mexico this afternoon.

Virgin Galactics first space tourists blasted off inside a spaceplane attached to a mothership carrier plane and are now heading toward space. The spaceplane is set to separate at 44,000ft.

Tens of thousands are expected to tune in to watch the much anticipated take off of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic first flight with tourists. It will launch from from Spaceport America, around 45 miles north of Las Cruces in New Mexico, US

Tens of thousands are expected to tune in to watch the take off of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic first flight with tourists. It will launch from from Spaceport America, around 45 miles north of Las Cruces in New Mexico, US

Virgin Galactic took off at Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert along with six members of crew including an 80-year-old who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mum and daughter pair from the Caribbean

Former British Olympian Jon Goodwin has become the first paying customer to ever fly to space aboard a flight chartered by Sir Richard Bransons firm Virgin Galactic.