Topic: virgin galactic

Astronaut (Getty/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

Why humans aren't ready for space travel

Nicole Karlis
VSS Unity (Virgin Galactic)

Scott Eric Kaufman
Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft mothership, in Mojave, California, November 4, 2014. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

Virgin Galactic flies again

Scott Eric Kaufman
In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo, shows Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at a Virgin Galactic hangar at Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif. Virgin Galactic has reported an unspecified problem during a test flight of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket. The company tweeted Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, morning that SpaceShipTwo was flying under rocket power and then tweeted that it had "experienced an in-flight anomaly." The tweet said more information would be forthcoming. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

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Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (AP/Craig Ruttle)

Sarah Gray
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Prachi Gupta