Virgin Galactic chalks up 4th commercial suborbital spaceflight, with 3 space tourists aboard

Maintaining a rapid-fire, launch-per-month pace, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic sent a crew of six, including three space tourists, on a brief rocketplane ride out of the lower atmosphere Friday in the company’s fourth suborbital spaceflight with paying customers aboard. Joining two Virgin Galactic pilots and the company’s chief astronaut trainer aboard the VSS Unity spaceplane, […]