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American spaceflight company Virgin Galactic launches its first space tourism flight, Galactic 02. Antigua and Barbudan tourists Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers become the first mother-daughter duo and first people from the Caribbean to fly to space, while Mayers also becomes the youngest woman and second youngest person to fly to space.
2023-08-10

American spaceflight company Virgin Galactic successfully launches Galactic 01, its first private spaceflight, from Spaceport America in New Mexico, United States.
2023-06-29

British billionaire Richard Branson travels into space aboard the VSS "Unity", a spaceplane owned and operated by the space flight company Virgin Galactic. At the age of 70, he is the second oldest person to travel to outer space.
2021-07-11

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo successfully completes its fourth powered test flight with VSS Unity and reaches space at an altitude of 82.7 km but does not breach the 100 km Karman Line.
2018-12-13

Virgin Galactic successfully tests VSS Unity, the first test since an October 2014 crash destroyed a previous version, VSS Enterprise.
2018-04-6

One person is dead and another injured after Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo explodes and crashes in California's Mojave Desert during a test flight of the spaceplane.
2014-10-31

Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson opens the world's first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America, in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The SpaceShipTwo spaceplane is expected to begin commercial flights from the spaceport by 2013.
2011-10-17

Construction of a factory for the first fleet of commercial spaceships begins at the Mojave Air and Space Port in the United States.
2010-11-9