Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin – are they more than ‘space’ joyrides for millionaires?
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his team successfully flew to the “edge of space” on the Unity 22 mission aboard a Virgin Galactic plane on July 12. The event was hailed as the start of space tourism, narrowly beating the planned launch on 20 July by fellow billionaire...
Branson preps for ‘extraordinary’ Space flight today
British Engineering icon Sir Richard Branson is set to realise his life's ambition to fly to the edge of space today. Branson is set to board his Virgin Galactic rocket plane today and blasts off to boundary of space - 50 miles above the Earths surface. Officially Branson...
FAA approves passenger spaceflight for Virgin Galactic
Space Tourism company Virgin Galactic announced today that the US Federal Aviation Administration has given the company the final license it needs to fly passengers on future spaceflights. Up to now Virgin Galactic the commercial license that the company had did not allow them to carry commercial passengers....