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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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Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight is set to take off this week. Here are the players taking civilians to space.
The steep price doesn't seem to be keeping people away. As of the end of last year, about 800 ticke…
Will Gendron
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Luxury space-tourism company shows off its capsule designed to float to the edge of space with a massive balloon
Space Perspective's new pressurized Neptune capsule is designed to take passengers on a six-hour tr…
Camilo Fonseca
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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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How to watch Virgin Galactic's first space tourist launch 300,000 feet above the ground
Virgin Galactic's Galactic 02 flight took off on Thursday. Here's how to watch the live stream as i…
Marianne Guenot
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Virgin Galactic's first space tourism passengers only spent a few minutes floating weightless above the Earth, and their experience still mirrored other astronauts' in 3 key ways
When three civilians entered space yesterday with Virgin Galactic, they felt some of the same thing…
Maiya Focht
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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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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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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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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 sinks 17% after the space tourism company announces plan to raise up to $500 million in debt
The stock traded around its lowest since March 2020, with the plan to raise convertible debt stokin…
Carla Mozée
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Virgin Galactic could climb 33% as demand for commercial space travel accelerates, says Jefferies
Virgin Galactic has an early-mover advantage in the space tourism market, said Jefferies which init…
Carla Mozée
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Virgin Galactic soars after FAA says company can resume flights following mishap probe
The FAA found that Virgin Galactic's aircraft deviated from its original course and failed to commu…
Isabelle Lee
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Virgin Galactic slips after the FAA says the company is grounded pending an investigation into a mishap during Branson's trip to space
"Virgin Galactic may not return the SpaceShipTwo vehicle to flight until the FAA approves the final…
Isabelle Lee
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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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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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Virgin Galactic wants to send tourists to space 3 times per month once its new spaceship is ready in 2023
Want to be one of the first to take a ride on Virgin Galactic's spaceship? That'll cost you a cool …
Tim Levin
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Virgin Galactic's first rocket-powered spaceflight test runs into a snag before reaching orbit
Billionaire Richard Branson's space tourism company Virgin Galactic cut short the first rocket-powe…
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Pollution from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic's rockets could harm human health as well as Earth's climate, study says
The study found that the concentration of nitrogen oxides released into the atmosphere was consider…
Kate Duffy
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Virgin Galactic announces tickets to space will start at $450,000
Richard Branson's space tourism company on Thursday reopened ticket sales, upping the starting pric…