Virgin Galactic was founded in 2004 by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, who had previously founded Virgin Atlantic airline and the Virgin Group, that is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists, suborbital launches for space science missions, and orbital launches of small satellites. Further in the future, Virgin Galactic plans to provide orbital human spaceflights as well.[1] The company also hopes to develop an orbital launch vehicle. SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft, is air launched from beneath a carrier aeroplane known as White Knight Two.
