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On Saturday, the VSS Unity space plane made its final flight, carrying four passengers to an altitude of 54.4 miles (87.5 km) above the New Mexico desert. The spacecraft will now be retired after just ...

Last year, Virgin Galactic seemed to finally be hitting a stride toward making commercial suborbital spaceflight. The company flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space six times in six ...

January 29, 2025 (BENTIU) – At least 19 people died on Wednesday when an aircraft carrying oil workers from South Sudan’s Unity State to the capital, Juba crashed, an official confirmed. The incident ...