The Italian government is investing 70 million euros into upgrades to Grottaglie Airport to allow it to serve as a spaceport for Virgin Galactic. Credit: Aeroporti di Puglia WASHINGTON — Virgin ...

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Last year, Virgin Galactic seemed to finally be hitting a stride toward making commercial suborbital spaceflight. The company flew its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane to the edge of space six times in six ...

Virgin Galactic is restructuring its debt in a bid to reach profitability before it runs out of money. The restructuring will probably raise interest costs, and will definitely dilute existing ...