Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc

Virgin Galactic is an aerospace and space travel company focused on human-first spaceflight for private individuals, researchers, and government agencies. The company utilizes advanced, highly reusable spaceships and high-altitude carrier aircraft. With 20 years of experience, Virgin Galactic aims to make human spaceflight repeatable and more accessible. Its mission is to transport humans and research experiments into space and return them safely to Earth with high frequency and an industry-leading cost structure, with the goal of achieving scale and profitability with next-generation vehicles. Virgin Galactic offers space access for private individuals, researchers, and government agencies. Missions include flying passengers to space and transporting scientific payloads and researchers for experiments. The company's operations encompass the design, development, manufacturing, ground and flight testing, spaceflight operation, and post-flight maintenance of its spaceflight system. This system, developed using proprietary technology and processes, provides space travel experiences for private astronauts, autonomous research flight opportunities, and human-tended research flights. The company also occasionally performs engineering services for third parties by leveraging its spaceship manufacturing expertise. Customers receive a multi-day experience culminating in a spaceflight with several minutes of weightlessness and views of Earth from space. The spaceflight system takes off and lands on a runway.