Blue Origin paused its space tourism flights to focus on its lunar lander and New Glenn launches in Florida, creating an opening for Virgin Galactic.

This was CNBC's live blog covering Virgin Galactic's first commercial spaceflight, Galactic 01. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Space tourism company Virgin Galactic, founded ...

Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have paused their suborbital flights, leaving customers and analysts questioning the future ...

While Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have been winning the billionaire space race, Richard Branson is finally getting space tourism misison off the ground. Branson’s Virgin Galactic will launch Galactic 01 ...

Virgin Galactic successfully completed its first commercial space flight on Thursday. Six people were on the Galactic 01 spaceflight. Three of them were from the Italian Air Force and the National ...

Virgin Galactic has found itself in a tough spot after it was grounded from any more space flights. Apparently, during the star-studded flight to orbit last month, the plane went off course for ...

Just days after returning from his first space flight, Sir Richard Branson is partnering with a charity fundraising platform to give away two tickets on an upcoming commercial space flight. Omaze is ...

People can once again reserve a space flight with Virgin Galactic. The company, founded by Richard Branson, plans to launch flights from New Mexico's Spaceport later this year. "During spaceflight, ...

MOJAVE, Calif. -- Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship climbed more than 50 miles high above California's Mojave Desert on Thursday, reaching for the first time what the company considers the boundary ...

The worst accident to hit the nascent private space sector occurred on Friday, October 31, 2014, after Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crashed in the Mojave Desert killing one of its two test pilots.