Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has successfully launched a tourism rocket plane into space for the first time.
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Virgin Galactic said its space tourism rocket plane could reach “space altitudes” for the first time as early as Thursday.
Think billionaires and outer space and three names quickly come to mind: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. It turns out, though, that they have plenty of company. There are 13 others among the world’s 500
More than two-and-a-half years after the fatal break-up of Virgin Galactic’s experimental rocket plane, Richard Branson is poised to revive powered test flights as the billionaire entrepreneur targets his first journey into space by the middle
Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year as it continues to work with Nasa for a planned crewed mission to the International Space Station. The passengers
The crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo experimental space plane on Friday, which killed one test pilot and severely injured another, may have wrecked the future of space tourism. “For the industry, the joyride is over,” says attorney Michael Listner
Virgin Galactic has taken its first steps to making commercial space travel a reality, with Sunday’s first flight of SpaceShipTwo, named VSS Enterprise. Enterprise was released from its mother ship, Eve, at an altitude of 13,7km.