Virgin Galactic readies spaceflight ticket sales
Virgin Galactic's commercial spaceflights will launch from New Mexico's Spaceport America in the fourth quarter of 2022. A single seat will cost $450,000, with an initial deposit of $150,000.
FAA to retire astronaut wings program as commercial space tourism race ramps up
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and actor William Shatner are among the Commercial Space Astronaut Wings program's recipients.
Virgin Galactic sells 100 commercial spaceflight seats for $450,000 apiece
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has sold approximately 100 seats for its future commercial spaceflights at $450,000 apiece, bringing its total reservations to date to 700.
Nearly half of Americans want space travel but few would pay $100K for it: survey
Apparently, space travel is a popular desire among nearly half of American adults.
Virgin Galactic stock plummets after commercial spaceflight delay
Shares of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic plunged as much as 20% in pre-market trading Friday after the aerospace company announced schedule changes that will delay its commercial spaceflights until the fourth quarter of 2022.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic pushes back commercial space flights
Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. said it is pushing back the launch of full commercial service for private-astronaut trips until toward the end of next year as it works to improve its space vehicles.
FAA clears Virgin Galactic for takeoff after investigation of Richard Branson's suborbital spaceflight
Following the investigation's findings, the FAA required Virgin Galactic to implement changes to how it communicates to the agency during flight operations. Virgin Galactic has also updated its calculations to expand the protected airspace for future flights to ensure "ample protected airspace for a variety of possible flight trajectories during spaceflight missions."
Virgin Galactic says FAA has cleared it for further flights
Virgin Galactic said Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared it to resume launches after an investigation into why its spaceship veered off course while descending during a July flight with founder Richard Branson aboard.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak launches private space company
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced the creation of a new private space company "unlike the others."
Virgin Galactic pushes back on 'misleading' characterizations, conclusions in report on historic spaceflight
Virgin Galactic is refuting the contents of a September 1 report that claims that the company's historic July 11 suborbital spaceflight could have been close to a "perilous emergency landing."
FAA halting Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo flights pending investigation
The FAA is overseeing an investigation into Richard Branson's flight to space that went off course.
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic test flight under FAA investigation
The July 11 flight saw Branson and Virgin Galactic employees fly more than 53 miles above the Earth to the edge of space aboard the company’s SpaceShipTwo before landing at the company’s Spaceport America in New Mexico.
Virgin Galactic stock gets grounded on Morgan Stanley call
Morgan Stanley turns cautious on Virgin Galactic’s stock. Here’s why.
Science Branson's Virgin Galactic to sell space flight tickets starting at $450,000
Spaceship company Virgin Galactic said it will open ticket sales on Thursday for space flights starting at $450,000 a seat, weeks after billionaire founder Richard Branson's high-profile trip to the edge of space.
FAA says Jeff Bezos not an astronaut based on new criteria
Jeff Bezos might have to settle for an "honorary" title in his space race ambitions after U.S. air authorities altered requirements for the title of "astronaut."
Richard Branson congratulates Jeff Bezos on spaceflight
Bezos and his crewmates touched down in the West Texas desert at the end of the more than 10-minute flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX hubs could help boost local real estate prices
"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.
Billionaire space race draws oversight from new FAA office
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.
Blue Origin says first paying customer on New Shepard will be youngest person in space
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 visited Richard Branson at 3 a.m. before spaceflight
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.