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 ...

An all-Purdue University crew is set to make history on a suborbital research flight with Virgin Galactic. Scheduled for launch in 2027, the mission, dubbed "Purdue 1," will see a professor, a student ...

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 ...

MOJAVE, Calif. -- Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship climbed more than 50 miles high above California's Mojave Desert on Thursday, reaching for the first time what the company considers the boundary ...

The company is also looking at using its mothership aircraft that releases spacecraft at high altitude as a carrier platform for other customers. Virgin Galactic is deep into development of its new ...

23) that it's sending a team of researchers, students and alumni to suborbital space with Virgin Galactic in ... environment," Virgin Galactic President of Spaceline Mike Moses, a former NASA space ...

Virgin Galactic is an aerospace and space travel company that is part of British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group conglomerate. Virgin Galactic's first of seven commercial spaceflights ...

"This mission with Purdue University is a powerful demonstration of what becomes possible when research institutions and educators gain direct access to the microgravity environment." The university ...