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Virgin Galactic flew its first-ever commercial mission today (June 29), sending a crew of four to suborbital space and back.

Virgin Galactic's first commercial spaceflight, a four-passenger mission, is scheduled to launch on Thursday (June 29). How many people can the company's SpaceShipTwo really carry?

After years of hype, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic started commercial service Thursday with its first flight for paying customers — Italian researchers who conducted experiments.

Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by Richard Branson, launched its first paying customers after nearly two decades of development.

The 90-minute flight will bring the first Virgin Galactic commercial crew to space as the company starts planned monthly flights.

Virgin Galactic announced Thursday that monthly commercial flights to the edge of space will begin for ticket-holders in August, following a research flight planned for the end of June. The space tourism company will be taking up a team of specialists with the Italian Air Force and the National Research Centre of Italy to conduct microgravity research. The window for that research flight will begin June 27 and span the next three days, with timing depending on the weather.

China's mysterious space plane has landed back on the surface of Earth after spending an entire year orbiting Earth and conducting unknown experiments.

The mysterious "experimental" space plane could be a round-trip vehicle for "peaceful" use of outer space, a Chinese state news agency said.

This week, we take a look at the successful rocket-powered test flight of the new Mk-II Aurora space plane by Dawn Aerospace.

Detroit, Michigan (PRWEB) December 12, 2022 -- Michigan-based startup, Stark Drones Corporation, is looking to go live on Wefunder on December 15th. Stark