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 ...

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic is looking forward to sending private astronauts to suborbital space and back, with 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The lawsuit alleges that Branson made over $1.1 billion by selling Virgin Galactic shares at a price artificially inflated by safety issues not being publicly known. A Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc.

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 ...

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 ...