Blue Origin launches first Black astronaut candidate 60 years after rejection
Ed Dwight trained to become the first African American astronaut but was never asked to join NASA. He finally flew into space on Sunday.
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Ed Dwight trained to become the first African American astronaut but was never asked to join NASA. He finally flew into space on Sunday.
In California's Mojave desert, Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship climbed more than 50 miles high Thursday, reaching for the first time what the company considers the boundary of space.
Virgin Galactic's new spaceship has completed its first glide flight.
Virgin Galactic rolled out a new version of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket Friday as it prepares to return to flight testing for the first time since a 2014 accident destroyed the original craft, killing a pilot and setting back the nascent industry.
Federal safety investigators said Tuesday the crash of a Virgin Galactic spaceship last year was caused by a catastrophic structural failure triggered when the co-pilot unlocked the craft's braking system early.
The test pilot who was killed last Friday when the Virgin Galactic private space vehicle broke up over the Mojave Desert was a native of Scotts Valley.
Billionaire Richard Branson is promising to find out what caused the crash of his Virgin Galactic prototype space tourism rocket that killed a test pilot, but federal investigators are cautioning that it may take up to a year to learn exactly what went wrong.
The pilot who was killed in the test flight of Virgin Galactic's prototype space tourism rocket is being remembered as a respected test pilot and devoted husband and father of two young children.
SpaceShip Two, a commercial aircraft designed for suborbital space tourism appears to have malfunctioned over California Friday morning.
As a Bay Area luxury travel agent for more than three decades, Lynda Turley Garrett never thought she'd be selling trips to outer space.
The tickets are being offered to those interested in traveling into space on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two.
A unique, spaceship-launching aircraft flew over the San Francisco Bay Wednesday morning in conjunction with the opening of a renovated terminal at San Francisco International Airport.
