MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA (REUTERS) - Billionaire Richard Branson will fly into space on a Virgin Galactic rocketship early next year, the space tourism company he founded said on Monday (Aug 3), adding that it would raise new funds with a share offering.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA - Billionaire Richard Branson will fly into space on a Virgin Galactic rocketship early next year, the space tourism company he founded said on Monday , adding that it would raise new funds with a share offering.
Branson's trip to space hinges on the success of two upcoming test flight programmes, Virgin Galactic Holdings said, with the first powered spaceflight scheduled for this fall from Spaceport America. The company competes with billionaire-backed ventures such as Blue Origin that are vying to usher in a new era of space tourism, racing to be the first to offer sub-orbital flights to civilian space travellers.
Virgin Galactic offers zero-gravity experiences to customers with its centerpiece SpaceShipTwo plane and has long-term point-to-point travel plans to quickly transport passengers from city to city at near-space altitudes. Earlier in June, Virgin Galactic had signed an agreement with Nasa to develop a programme to promote private missions to the International Space Station.
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