In the wake of British billionaire Richard Branson’s historic journey to the edge of space on Sunday, astronomers are heralding this achievement as a significant step forward when it comes to ...

According to some reports, Branson’s flight in July 2021 “strayed from its assigned airspace.” However, he can at least boast of being the first person to reach space in his own company’s rocket, ...

Billionaire Richard Branson's spaceship company Virgin Galactic said on Friday it received approval from the U.S. aviation safety regulator to fly people to space, turning up the pressure on ...

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism company will continue developing its Delta Spaceplace, with a launch now set ...

Richard Branson’s flight into space under investigation, FAA grounds Virgin Galactic The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing why SpaceShipTwo flew outside the area in which it was ...

Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is due on Sunday to send the company’s passenger rocket plane, the VSS Unity, on its first fully crewed test flight to the edge of space.

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and five crew members successfully traveled to the edge of space, experiencing weightlessness aboard a Virgin Galactic spacecraft. The flight is part of a ...

Sir Richard Branson has signed on to be the co-pilot of Space Perspective’s first space balloon flight sometime next year, which could be the the 74-year-old billionaire adventurer’s eighth Guinness ...

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M.—Swashbuckling entrepreneur Richard Branson hurtled into space aboard his own winged rocket ship Sunday in his boldest adventure yet, beating out fellow billionaire ...

Branson's other chief rival in the space-tourism race among the world's richest men, SpaceX's Elon Musk, came to New Mexico to witness the flight, wishing Branson via Twitter, "Godspeed!" ...

Richard Branson is a step closer to getting to space. On Tuesday, Virgin Galactic, the company he founded more than a decade ago with the goal of flying tourists to the edge of space and back ...

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and five crew members successfully traveled to the edge of space, experiencing weightlessness aboard a Virgin Galactic spacecraft. The flight is part of a ...