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Every Sky Miles member on a Delta flight got a free Virgin Voyages cruise, courtesy of Richard Branson himself
Adult Sky Miles members on a Delta flight from Atlanta to San Juan got free tickets for a Caribbean…
Joey Hadden
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Virgin Galactic surges 47% as Richard Branson's space tourism company preps first commercial flight
After years of delays, Virgin Galactic said the first flight will take place on June 27, with anoth…
Max Adams
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Meet SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew: The daring 4 who are in space on the most ambitious private space mission in history
The Polaris Dawn crew — Jared Isaacman, Scott Poteet, Sarah Gillis, and Anna Menon — is traveling d…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny M…
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Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is under fire for offering $450,000 commercial space flights just a week after the Titan submersible tragedy
"Someone is seriously trying to decrease that 1% population," a social-media user commented about t…
Amanda Goh
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You can now purchase tickets to take a trip to space through Virgin Galactic’s space plane
There are a total of 1,000 tickets up for grabs and each ticket costs ₹$450,000. The ticket wind…
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Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic lays off 185 employees as it doubles down on efforts to build new spaceships
The company said in an earnings call that it expected a reduction in headcount would generate aroun…
Jyoti Mann
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Chamath Palihapitiya and Richard Branson are being sued over allegedly covering up flaws in Virgin Galactic's spaceships and pocketing millions by dumping shares
Palihapitiya and Branson took advantage of an "artificially inflated" stock price while knowing Vir…
Shalini Nagarajan
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One of SpaceX's biggest rivals on competing with Elon Musk and the new space race
Sir Peter Beck has built Rocket Lab into a $3.5 billion space company and SpaceX competitor.
Tom Carter
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Virgin Galactic is selling tickets to space for $450,000 as it plans more commercial flights this year
The space tourism tickets will cost a total of $450,000 for the 90-minute flight, including an init…
Grace Kay
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Virgin Galactic skyrockets 30% after announcing it will begin selling tickets for flights to space
Virgin Galactic stock surged after the company announced it will sell spaceflight tickets to the ge…
Phil Rosen
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit rocket firm files for bankruptcy
It failed to secure funding to continue operations.
Huileng Tan
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Virgin Galactic soars 12% after company reports smaller-than-expected loss and stays on track for commercial space flights in the 4th-quarter
Last week, the company began selling $450,000 tickets to launch customers into space for 90 minutes.
Natasha Dailey
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Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit lays off 85% of workforce
Virgin Orbit, the rocket company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, has laid off nearl…
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Richard Branson and 3 crewmates flipped in zero-gravity and walked on the ceiling when Virgin Galactic's plane reached the edge of space - take a look
Richard Branson floated in zero gravity in Virgin Galactic's spacecraft.Virgin Galactic
Kate Duffy
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Virgin Galactic says its space mission with the Italian Air Force is delayed due to a possible manufacturing flaw
A third-party supplier flagged a potential defect in a component of the flight-control system, Virg…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Fans notice that 'The Simpsons' predicted Richard Branson's space flight in 2014
In the scene, Branson floats in zero gravity on board a spaceship: a near mirror image of what he d…
Ayomikun Adekaiyero
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During Richard Branson's spaceflight, Virgin Galactic's rocket plane blared a red warning light and flew out of its clearance zone
The New Yorker reported that the spaceship's short venture out of bounds triggered an investigation…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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As Richard Branson prepares to beat Jeff Bezos to space, Blue Origin claims the flight won't go high enough to count
Virgin Galactic's flight on Sunday will carry Richard Branson 55 miles up. So it won't pass the Kár…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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Jeff Bezos thanks Amazon employees and customers for paying for his jaunt to space: 'You guys paid for all of this'
"I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of t…
Ben Gilbert
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Richard Branson says Elon Musk made a surprise visit in the middle of the night with his 2-year-old son hours before his first space flight
The Virgin Galactic founder told The Sunday Times the visit occurred on the day he made his first t…