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Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. is a British-American spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson and the Virgin Group conglomerate which retains an 11.9% stake through Virgin Investments Limited. [2] It is headquartered in California, and operates from New Mexico. The company develops commercial spacecraft and provides suborbital ...
The 11 July 2021 flight was the first time more than three people flew suborbitally on a spaceflight and the first time more than one passenger flew on a suborbital spaceflight, and Branson was the first founder of a spaceflight company to fly to space on his own company's craft, using the USAF/NASA definition of space as above 50 miles.
31 October 2014. VSS Enterprise (tail number: N339SS[1]) was the first SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spaceplane, built by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic. As of 2004, it was planned to be the first of five commercial suborbital SS2 spacecraft planned by Virgin Galactic. [2][3] [needs update] It was also the first ship of the Scaled Composites Model ...
Branson edges out fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, who plans a similar feat July 20 with his company Blue Origin. Richard Branson reaches edge of space in historic flight Skip to ...
Virgin Galactic's rocket-powered plane Unity is displayed in the tarmac after a short flight to the edge of space at Spaceport America, near Truth or Consequences, N.M., Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023.
The Spaceship Company. The Spaceship Company (TSC) is a British/American spacecraft manufacturing company that was founded by Burt Rutan and Richard Branson in mid-2005 and was jointly owned by Virgin Group (70%) and Scaled Composites (30%) until 2012 when Virgin Galactic became the sole owner. [ 3 ] TSC was formed to own the technology created ...
The billionaire space race[2][3][4][5] is the rivalry among entrepreneurs who have entered the space industry from other industries – particularly computing. [6][7] This private spaceflight race involves sending privately developed rockets and vehicles to various destinations in space, often in response to government programs or to develop ...
Shares of Virgin Galactic, the space tourism venture founded by Richard Branson, are plunging after the British billionaire said he has no plans to invest more money in the company.