Virgin Galactic readies first spaceflight from Spaceport America for 'later this this fall'

Virgin Galactic is getting ready to fly its first mission to space from its Spaceport America facility in New Mexico.

This is the site that the company will use to host all of its commercial flights, and making it to space from this launch locale is crucial to getting to that point.

Earlier this year, Virgin Galactic successfully flew a number of tests of its SpaceShipTwo launch craft from New Mexico, but these didn’t include a trip to space.