British billionaire and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is investing in Titusville-based Space Perspective, and he will co-pilot a pressurized capsule and enormous hydrogen balloon on the ...

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceflight touched the edge of space on Sunday morning for the company’s fourth crewed flight. The flight was successful and landed back in New Mexico roughly an ...

Virgin Galactic results and plans for future flights sent shares of the space tourism firm soaring 35% Friday. The company founded by billionaire Richard Branson posted a lower loss and higher revenue ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Federal Aviation Administration has tightened the official definition of an astronaut, meaning Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson have been stripped of the title, according to the ...

Virgin Galactic shares veered sharply lower Monday after the spaceflight company said it's made arrangements to sell up to $500 million in stock. The disclosure comes a day after founder Richard ...

Following the 2014 death of a Virgin Galactic SpaceShip pilot during a test flight, Richard Branson's dream of readily available (at $250,000 a ticket) recreational space flight endured the massive ...

Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc., the space tourism company founded by billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, said it remains on track to resume space tourism flights in fall 2026 and is exploring the ...

Virgin Galactic spaceship launched Sunday morning in New Mexico. Mission accomplished. Billionaire Sir Richard Branson flew to the lower edge of space and back to planet Earth on Sunday in the first ...

Today, Virgin Galactic, the world’s first commercial spaceline owned by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s aabar Investments PJS, successfully completed the second rocket-powered, ...

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic said today it plans to resume private astronaut flights in the fall of 2026, after a break of more than two years to get the Tustin-based company’s new space ...

MOJAVE, Calif. -- Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship climbed more than 50 miles high above California's Mojave Desert on Thursday, reaching for the first time what the company considers the boundary ...

Branson also has a love of long-distance ballooning, so the Space Perspective trip should fit in his bucket list. He set a Guinness record in 1987 by crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon, and then ...