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The company, owned by billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson, announced the transfer of all spaceflight operations to Spaceport America in New Mexico on yesterday.

M2 EQUITYBITES-July 16, 2019-Virgin Galactic, Social Capital Hedosophia Merge to Form Commercial Human Spaceflight Company

Once the transaction has been completed, Virgin Galactic will become the first and only publicly traded commercial human spaceflight company.

Stennis Space Center employees Laura Pair, Mike Pannell and Brock Saucier were recognized April 3 by NASA's Space Flight Awareness Program with an Honoree Award for outstanding support of human spaceflight.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch is going to have her mission on the International Space Station (ISS) extended to nearly 11 months, which would set a record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, the US space agency said Wednesday.

One of the schedules requires NASA astronaut Christina Koch to remain in orbit until February 2020 and set a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman.

The Twins Study provides the first integrated biomolecular view into how the human body responds to the spaceflight environment, and serves as a genomic stepping stone to better understand how to maintain crew health during human expeditions to the Moon and Mars.

Walnut, CA, April 11, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Many would say that the 1960s were the golden age of human spaceflight. There were massive achievements by the Soviets and the Americans that helped the world superpowers to send the first manned space ships into orbit and eventually to the moon.

"NASA passed a major milestone Friday in its goal to restore America's human spaceflight capability when SpaceX's Crew Dragon returned to Earth after a five-day mission docked to the International Space Station," NASA said in a statement.

Spaceflight has announced its CEO Curt Blake has been named an honoree by Puget Sound Business Journal for the 2019 Innovator of the Year award, the company said.