VMS Eve

Virgin Galactic has pushed back the expected launch date of commercial spaceflights until Q4 2022. The aerospace company had most recently had its hopes pinned on a Q3 2022 start.

Seats aboard Richard Branson’s spaceship have reopened for sale in the past week, skyrocketing in price.

Virgin Galactic test pilots broke Mach 2 late last week, as VSS Unity took her third rocket-powered supersonic outing in less than four months. After a clean release from carrier aircraft VMS Eve at 14,173 metres, pilots Dave Mackay and Mike “Sooch” Masucci lit the spaceship’s rocket motor, before pulling up into a near vertical climb and powering towards the black sky at 2.47 times the speed of sound.