Speaking to The Sunday Times, the company’s head of operations, Mike Moses, said: “We’re very close to being ready to fly. We are in those final checks.”
When pushed by the reporter interviewing him, he said it was “possible” that test flights could resume next year.
His comments come following the disaster on October 31, 2014, which saw one test pilot killed and one injured when one of the company’s rockets broke up during a test flight.
More than 700 people have signed up for the flights which cost £190,000 each and which will see people break out of the earth’s atmosphere from the Virgin Galactic base in southern California.
