Virgin Galactic mothership
Virgin Galactic selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build two new "mothership" aircraft for its next-generation suborbital spaceplanes in 2022.

Virgin Galactic has filed a countersuit against Boeing over a project to develop a new mothership aircraft, arguing in part that Boeing performed poorly.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...