After reaching a speed of 114 miles an hour with an RC plane, he wanted to go further and break that record. To do so, he looked towards rocket power, and started a new build. The design consists ...

It's taken just shy of 20 years but Sir Richard Branson has finally begun commercial operations with his Virgin Galactic rocket plane, Unity. The vehicle soared high over the New Mexico desert on ...

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space plane has conducted the first of ... before being released to ignite its rocket motor. The vehicle then climbed rapidly to the edge of space, achieving ...