Virgin Galactic has responded to Boeings lawsuit, which accuses the company of retaining its trade secrets.

Richard Bransons private space venture is countersuing Boeing over an agreement to develop Virgin Galactics next generation mothership.

The agreement, however, fell through, and both companies are apparently salty about it.

Virgin Galactic’s Eve Mothership carries its suborbital spaceplane and releases it at an altitude of 44,500 feet above the ground.

Virgin Galactic’s Eve Mothership carries its suborbital spaceplane and releases it at an altitude of 44,500 feet above the ground.Photo: Virgin Galactic

Boeing has come under heat lately for a host of safety issues and scandals.

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew 9 members inside the International Space Station.

Trump Truth Social post from March 17, 2025.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together for a portrait inside the vestibule between the International Space Station and the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft. Clockwise from left, are NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.

The crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission (from left) mission specialist Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers, pilot, and Anne McClain, commander, along with Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), pose for a picture during training at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, Boeing’s Crew Flight Test Commander and Pilot respectively, inspect safety hardware aboard the International Space Station.

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