Virgin to Launch Commercial Space Flights
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British entrepreneur Richard Branson said Monday that his Virgin company plans to launch commercial space flights over the next few years.
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Virgin America Airlines, the low-cost carrier with ties to British entrepreneur Richard Branson, received its operating license on Wednesday from U.S. aviation authorities and announced plans to sell tickets.
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Richard Branson, famed entrepreneur from Great Britain, has announced that he will launch the first passenger space service in 2007.
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British entrepreneur and adventurer Richard Branson, owner of the Virgin Group, announced Monday he has signed a deal with US company Mojave Aerospace Ventures (MAV) to put paying travelers into space.
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Sir Richard Branson has unveiled a mock-up of the rocket-powered vehicle that will carry clients into space through his Virgin Galactic business.
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Virgin Airlines has outclassed its counterparts once again by announcing that, by 2006, passengers will be able to travel to space aboard the Virgin Galactic spaceship.
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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&quot;Virgin has been in talks with Paul Allen and Burt [Rutan] throughout this year and in the early hours of Saturday signed a historical deal to license SpaceShipOne&#39;s technology to build the world&#39;s
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[World News] London, Sep 27 : British billionaire Richard Branson Monday announced his company Virgin Atlantic airlines would launch the world&#39;s first commercial space flight in the near future, Xinhua reports.
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Sir Richard Branson is set to unveil a mock-up of the Virgin vehicle that will carry customers into space.
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LONDON, England -- British entrepreneur Richard Branson announced his company has signed a deal to offer the world&#39;s first commercial flights to space under the branding &quot;Virgin Galactic.
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&quot;Star Trek&quot; star William Shatner, the former Captain of the USS Enterprise is willing to pay US$210,000 for a seat on one of Virgin Group&#39;s first proposed commercial space flights.
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The designer of the SpaceShipOne vessel, which cracked the barrier to manned commercial space flight earlier this year, signs a deal with Virgin Airways' Richard Branson to build more spacecraft based on that design.
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Entrepreneur and part-time daredevil Richard Branson plans to launch the world&#39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds.
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Airline mogul and adventurer Richard Branson announced plans Monday to boldly go where no private transport company has gone before &#151; into space.
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SpaceShipOne, the rocket plane that blasted into space on Wednesday in the first of its $10m Ansari X-Prize flights, will launch again on Monday.
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Sir Richard Branson has announced that the Virgin Group have set up a special company to offer commercial space flights by the year 2007.