Tag: virgin galactic

Mind blown in Mojave

Next stop on our Virgin Galactic itinerary was a visit to the Mojave Desert in California, where both Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company’s build and testing operations are located. After driving out from LA we met up with the VG team (who were feeling like family by this stage) and some of the future astronauts […]

The Land of Enchantment

I’ve never been to New Mexico, but as we drove across the Texas state border after landing in El Paso, we were greeted by signs saying ‘Welcome to the Land of Enchantment’. I was already expecting to be pretty enchanted with this trip as we were there for the purpose of visiting Spaceport with Virgin […]

A visit to Spaceport

Spaceport is the world,s first commercial space travel airport, located in an isolated area of New Mexico, and Virgin Galactic is its current occupant meaning we got the chance to visit this past weekend. After driving for the best part of an hour in our convoy of white Land Rover’s  (the official vehicle partner of Virgin […]