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73-year-old billionaire Richard Branson's daily routine starts with an ice bath and a game of tennis
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson's daily routine is chock full of sports, from tennis to kite-surfing, that all take place on his private island.
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 trip to the edge of the stratosphere.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is taking another shot at space after a mid-flight snafu grounded it for 15 months
Blue Origin will try again to launch its New Shepard rocket. It'd be a step forward in the billionaire space race between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
A Boeing 747 that flew for Virgin Orbit before its collapse has a new home with Stratolaunch
Named the Spirit of Mojave, Stratolaunch bought the 22-year-old Boeing 747 from Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit for $17 million.
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 around $25 million in cost savings.
Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight took off this week. Here are the players taking civilians to space.
Tourists can now go to space — though it'll cost a pretty penny. Seats on Virgin Galactic's missions cost $450,000.
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 things career astronauts have experienced.
Space tourists will probably have sex up there, but they shouldn't get pregnant, researchers warn
Virgin Galactic just flew its first tourist crew, and SpaceX has launched a few. Researchers say space-tourism companies should have the sex talk.
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 its spacecraft takes off.
Virgin Galactic launch recap: A spectacular flight with a textbook landing
Virgin Galactic's first space tourists had the rare opportunity to float weightlessly at the edge of space. We'll have live updates on the Galactic 02 and Virgin Galactic.
A Virgin Galactic passenger joked that he would have to wear diapers on Thursday's mission because the spaceship didn't have toilets
Jon Goodwin is one of three passengers on Virgin Galactic's first private commercial spaceflight on Thursday. He said the ship didn't have a toilet.
If a space tourism flight goes horribly wrong, it could be even harder to rescue passengers than the Titan sub disaster
As more companies are sending tourists into space, the Titan submersible disaster highlights the challenges of rescues from extreme environments.
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 the $450,000 space tours on an Instagram post.
How riding rockets going 4,000 mph into suborbital space could slash international flight times from 22 hours to 2
Companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab are exploring the possibility of using rockets to transport cargo across the globe in record time.
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 another scheduled for August.
Richard Branson says Elon Musk made a surprise visit in the middle of the night with his infant son hours before his first spaceflight
The Virgin Galactic founder told The Sunday Times the visit occurred on the day he made his first trip to space in July 2021.
Here's what William Shatner would have seen on his trip to space aboard Blue Origin as his new book says it 'felt like a funeral'
Star Trek star William Shatner described the void of actual space as "ominous darkness," though he said he was finally able to see the true beauty of Earth below.
Why this professor is using $50,000 of his retirement savings to realize his childhood dream and fly into space
Chris Cokinos explained why he's flying to space with World View, which caters to those with more modest budgets rather than playboy billionaires.