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As Al Gore and James Bell reach the Apple Board of Directors retirement age of 75, Dr. Wanda Austin joins the board.

Virgin Galactic Holdings announced on July 14 that it has signed a long-term lease for a new manufacturing facility of “its next-generation Delta class spaceships” in Mesa, near the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.

Space tourism may still be just for billionaires - but a company called Zero G is offering what it believes may be the next best thing.

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 �...

Richard Branson’s space tourism company Virgin Galactic is poised for a key test flight of its two-part launch vehicle, a step that could move it closer to offering regular trips to the edge of space for the ultimate sightseeing tour. With the launch delayed for more than a month because of COVID-19 restrictions, the company will have from December 11th through the 24th to complete the mission – the first launched from its New Mexico launch site at Spaceport America. On the task list will be an assessment of improvements to the horizontal stabilisers and to the flight control system that ...