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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wedneday said it closed its mishap investigation into the July 11 Virgin Gala...

The government investigation found the Virgin Galactic vehicle had deviated from its assigned airspace on the descent from space.

20 July 2021, 08:07 pm Blue Origins vs. Virgin Galactic may soon be the main event of future space tourism offers, as the New Shepard has debuted with a successful mission to orbit earlier today. The spacecraft can now line up next to Virgin's Unity-22 which launched with RIchard Branson earlier this month, alongside Elon Musk's SpaceX, and ULA.  Jeff Bezos' first spaceflight was a dream come true for the Amazon founder and was made possible by his space company, Blue Origin, which only had the FAA's approval for its mission more than a week from its flight.  Blue Origin vs. Virgin Galact...

It marked a symbolic milestone for Branson, for a venture he started 17 years ago. Branson was among a crew of four "mission specialists" who reached speeds three times the speed of sound during launch, grazing the edge of space. Joining him on Galactic Unity 22,. were three employees from Virgin Galactic - Colin Bennett, lead operations engineer, Beth Moses, chief astronaut instructor, and Sirisha Bandla, the vice president of government affairs and research operations. The crew reached a peak altitude of more than 85-thousand meters, and were weightless for a few moments before the Galact...

Sir Richard Branson and a crew of three others grazed the edge of space on Sunday in a rocket built by the British billionaire's company, Virgin Galactic. Lifting off from Spaceport America in Las Cruces, N.M., — a commercial space flight center owned and operated by the state of New Mexico about 180 miles south of Albuquerque —Branson was among three other "mission specialists" who reached speeds three times the speed of sound. The spacecraft, which was attached to a larger plane, taxied across a runway at Spaceport America before lifting off at about 8:40 local time. As the mothership �...