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Three minutes of floating, one very expensive ticket.

Virgin Galactic

I’ll be honest with you. Three minutes of weightlessness for the price of a very nice house sounds absurd to me. Even so, hundreds of people have already lined up to experience it.

Most recently, Virgin Galactic unveiled Apeiron, the first spaceplane in its new Delta class. The company flew it from its Arizona factory to Spaceport America in New Mexico, where it will begin flight testing.

What makes Apeiron different from the old spaceplane?

Apeiron replaces VSS Unity, which completed seven suborbital flights in 2023 and 2024 before Virgin Galactic paused operations to cut costs and focus on its successor. Its name means “boundless” in ancient Greek and was chosen through a public vote involving participants from 83 countries.

Apeiron can carry six passengers instead of four.…