Tag: spaceshiptwo

Op-Ed | It’s Time to Rescind the Moratorium on Regulation of Commercial Spaceflight

AerospaceOctober 15, 2021

The race for a place in space is one of the many things people love about the spirit of the United States —...

Virgin Galactic postpones SpaceShipTwo flight, begins maintenance period

AerospaceOctober 14, 2021

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Virgin Galactic will postpone a SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceflight that had been scheduled for this month, electing to instead immediately begin...

Is Netflix’s Inspiration4 docuseries a new era in Space Age media relations?

AerospaceOctober 6, 2021

Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space is something of a throwback to the early days of spaceflight when NASA’s Mercury 7 astronauts traded special...

Blue Origin says ‘Star Trek’ actor William Shatner will fly to space next week

AerospaceOctober 4, 2021

Blue Origin confirmed Monday that actor William Shatner, who played Captain...

Star Trek’s William Shatner to fly on next New Shepard flight

AerospaceOctober 4, 2021

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin confirmed Oct. 4 that William Shatner, the actor best known at Capt. James T. Kirk from the original “Star...

FAA clears Virgin Galactic to resume SpaceShipTwo flights

AerospaceSeptember 29, 2021

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration said Sept. 29 that it completed its investigation into a problem on Virgin Galactic’s most recent SpaceShipTwo...

Planet co-founder among passengers on Blue Origin’s next suborbital spaceflight

AerospaceSeptember 28, 2021

The co-founders of the satellite remote sensing company Planet Labs and...

UN secretary-general criticizes “billionaires joyriding to space”

AerospaceSeptember 24, 2021

WASHINGTON — The secretary-general of the United Nations lumped space tourism alongside corruption and loss of freedoms as part of a “malady of...

Potential component defect to delay next Virgin Galactic flight

AerospaceSeptember 12, 2021

WASHINGTON — Virgin Galactic is further delaying its next SpaceShipTwo suborbital flight in order to check a potential issue the company says is...

Virgin Galactic sees delay to space mission with Italian Air Force

Big DataSeptember 10, 2021

(Reuters) - Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc on Friday flagged a delay to its first commercial research mission with the Italian Air Force to...

FAA grounds SpaceShipTwo after problem on July flight

AerospaceSeptember 2, 2021

LOMPOC, Calif. — The Federal Aviation Administration will not allow Virgin Galactic to resume flights of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane until it completes...

Italian Air Force Announces First Sub-orbital Research Mission With Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo

AviationSeptember 2, 2021

Next rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo Unity from Spaceport America, with three paying crew members from the Italian Air Force and the National...

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