Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson takes suborbital space trip, stealing the spotlight from Jeff Bezos. by Alan Boyle on July 11, 2021 at 10:35 am July 11, 2021 at 10:56 am.

For years, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have competed to be the first to offer commercial trips to space. And yesterday, Branson, the 70-year-old British billionaire, took the first ride.

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 ...

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 ...

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson will travel to the edge of space on Sunday. The “Unity 22” mission, which will be live-streamed around 9 a.m. E.T., includes a full crew of two pilots ...

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.

Billionaire Richard Branson pushed back against critics of his recent trip to space, suggesting they simply "aren’t fully educated" on the benefits space exploration offers Earth.

Branson is an investor in Space Perspective and an avid ballooner. In 1987, he traversed the Atlantic Ocean and in 1991, the Pacific Ocean, setting world records with each trip.

Chris Smith’s HBO docuseries about Richard Branson doesn’t shy away from controversies involving his spaceflight company Virgin Galactic, bid for U.K. government support of Virgin Atlantic ...

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 To Pilot $125,000-a-Trip Space Balloon With ‘Cocktail Service’ The entire experience is projected to last six hours, reaching more the 100,000 feet into the sky. Richard Branson at New ...