Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson rode his company's rocket plane into the skies over New Mexico today and did something no billionaire has done before.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to writer Nicholas Schmidle of The New Yorker about the billionaire space race, and Branson's milestone commercial flight to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic.

Richard Branson’s trip to space is about convincing others to come along The Virgin Group founder is taking another step toward making space tourism a reality.

Richard Branson Announces Trip to Space, Ahead of Jeff Bezos Branson’s company said Thursday evening that its next test flight will be July 11 and that its founder will be among the six people ...

British billionaire and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson could see the gently curving roof line and unfinished steel shell of Spaceport America rising from the desert as his jet banked ...

The billionaire space race officially begins on Sunday, July 11, 2021. Here's everything we know about Richard Branson's trip to space.

Sir Richard Branson will co-pilot a hydrogen “space balloon” that will float a small group of high-paying passengers higher into the stratosphere than any commercial balloon has gone before ...

Sir Richard Branson is set to travel to space once again after becoming the first billionaire to reach space in 2021. The businessman will co-pilot the world's first commercial stratospheric ...

Richard Branson has quipped that he is ready to create the UK's first female space trip with Virgin Galactic on Tuesday. The British billionaire, 74, was approached by BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James to ...

The flight was Virgin Galactic’s seventh trip to space since 2018, but the first with a ticket-holder. In 2021, Branson, the company’s founder, jumped on board for the first full-size crew ride.

Sir Richard Branson is going to space…again. The Virgin Galactic founder is set to co-pilot the inaugural crewed flight for Space Perspective, the world’s first stratospheric balloon flight ...