Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic is a spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists and suborbital launches for space science missions. Virgin Galactic plans to provide orbital human spaceflights as well. SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic's suborbital spacecraft, is air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two. Virgin Galactic's founder, Sir Richard Branson, had initially suggested that he hoped to see a maiden flight by the end of 2009, but this date has been delayed on a number of occasions, most recently by the October 2014
Sanctuary of the Virgin of Taburnus tourism draw of Bucciano, attracting Marian devotees from the surroundings. The main pilgrimage to the sanctuary is held on Divine Mercy Sunday. Due to the popularity of the sanctuary Pope Sixtus V allowed women to enter the sanctuary four times a year. To the sanctuary, and to the Virgin Mary effigies it holds, several prodigies are attributed. A group of deaf people from the region visits the sanctuary annually. Sanctuary of the Virgin of Taburnus The Sanctuary of the Virgin of Taburnus ("Italian": Santuario della Madonna del Taburno), also known as Sanctuary of Saint Mary of Mount Taburno ("Italian": Santuario