Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic is a spaceflight company within the Virgin Group, founded by Sir Richard Branson in 2004. Its primary objective is to provide suborbital spaceflights for space tourists and to develop commercial space travel. The company aims to make access to space more affordable and routine through the use of its spaceplane, VSS Unity, which is carried aloft by a mothership, VMS Eve, before being released to ascend towards the edge of space. Virgin Galactic focuses on the experience of space tourism, allowing civilians to experience weightlessness and see the curvature of the Earth from space.