What’s Going On With Virgin Galactic Stock Today?

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPCE) shares are taking off Monday. The stock appears to be reacting to the company’s announcement that it will return to space in late May to validate the commercial astronaut experience ahead of the company’s first commercial flight.

What To Know: Virgin Galactic will send a crew of four mission specialists to space later this month on the Unity’s 25th flight, which will act as the final assessment of the full spaceflight system and astronaut experience before commercial services commence in June.