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"Given that SpaceX and Blue Origin employees have sophisticated high-tech skills with presumably high income, the impacted small community real estate market will clearly benefit," NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun told FOX Business.

The Federal Aviation Administration has opened a new office in Houston, Texas, in order to hold closer watch over the activities of billionaire-owned firms sending people into space.

After Virgin Galactic made history, Richard Branson’s other space company, Virgin Orbit is making its own mark on the space industry and taking on SpaceX.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announced Thursday that an 18-year-old would be the first paying customer to fly onboard its New Shepard suborbital rocket — and the youngest person to ever go to space.

Elon Musk's comments come a day after Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson made history as the first person to blast off in his own spaceship.

Richard Branson, who boasts a net worth of about $7.7 billion, tweeted a picture of the two billionaire space tycoons together on Sunday, the morning of the flight.

Investors are pushing up Virgin Galactic shares following the aerospace company's successful Unity 22 mission on Sunday, in which Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and five other crewmates flew to suborbital space and back.

In addition to the seats, winners will be given an all-expenses paid trip to New Mexico and a tour of Spaceport America by Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson.

Richard Branson reached space on a test flight for Virgin Galactic before gliding back to earth and touching down safely Sunday, the latest salvo in the burgeoning space tourism business led by high-profile billionaires.

Viewers were left frustrated and disappointed by a lackluster livestream as Richard Branson flew into suborbital space on a Virgin Galactic test flight.

Branson admits that his fortune never would have existed without the help of his late mother Eve Branson.

Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson is set to leapfrog Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos to become the first billionaire in space when the British entrepreneur launches into space Sunday, nine days ahead of Bezos's first planned ascent.

As billionaire Richard Branson braces to fly to the edge space Sunday, his daughter took to social media to reminisce about watching her father prepare for past adventures.

Blue Origin took shots at competitor Virgin Galactic on Twitter Friday night, comparing offerings to customers using a recent Aerospace Research Central study.

Here is everything you need to know about the upcoming flights and the men behind two of the biggest players in the aerospace industry

As billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos race to outer orbit, space ETFs take off.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson teased in a special edition of his LinkedIn newsletter Thursday that he is ready to turn "dream into reality" with Sunday's suborbital spaceflight aboard the aerospace company's VSS Unity spacecraft.

Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson gave NBC's "Today" show an all-access pass to the inside of the aerospace company's prized VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo on Tuesday.

Virgin Galactic announced Thursday that the launch window for its first fully crewed spaceflight opens July 11, and founder Richard Branson will be onboard.