The university known as the cradle of astronauts will soon send a few more folks to the final frontier. Twenty-eight alumni of Indiana-based Purdue have flown to space or been selected for spaceflight ...

Media covering Virgin Galactic flights often say the VSS Unity spaceship flew to “the edge of space,” but that may be a spaceflight misnomer. The confusion likely reflects the internationally accepted ...

Namira Salim (Pakistan), Trevor Beattie (UK) and Ron Rosano (US) flew on Virgin Galactic's Galactic 04 mission. Salim became the first Pakistani astronaut to fly to space. In the cabin was Virgin ...

More than a year has gone by since Virgin Galactic last sent a group of civilian passengers to the edge of space from the New Mexico desert. In June 2024, six space tourists boarded the company's VSS ...

Virgin Galactic’s Purdue 1 suborbital flight in 2027 will probe the possibilities of in-space manufacturing and quantum technologies with autonomous experiments on board the all-Boilermaker flight.

As soon as Thursday, Virgin Galactic plans to fire the rocket motor of its spacecraft and fly to an altitude of more than 50 miles. If it accomplishes that goal, it would proclaim it has reached the ...

A team of five juniors from Saint Thomas Academy is one of 60 winning teams in the fifth annual NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge, a nationwide contest to engage middle and ...

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s been more than a year since Virgin Galactic paused commercial spaceflights from New Mexico’s Spaceport to make improvements to their fleet, and with one year ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue aerospace engineering professor and student are about to take the classroom to new heights. On Tuesday, Virgin Galactic and Purdue University announced an upcoming ...