Virgin Galactic lays off 40 employees ahead of transition to New Mexico spaceport

10:30am PST - January 25th, 2019    rockets - The Verge

Space tourism venture Virgin Galactic laid off around 40 employees, as the company prepares to transition from its test program to commercial flights with paying customers. The layoffs, first reported by NMPolitics.net, amount to less than 5 percent of the co…