August 2016
The promise of space tourism
...of spaceflight. Armchair astronauts can finally live the dream onboard passenger spacecraft built by Virgin Airlines founder Richard Branson and Burt Rutan, the designer of history-making SpaceShipOne. Virgin Galactic’s passenger spacecraft can carry...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... are also doing things that are aligned with and can enable space settlement. Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic. Some young Earth orbiting constellations fit this description, as they were started by people...
June 2017
Spaceplane rationale - a new way of thinking
...Several companies are developing suborbital vehicles for carrying passengers on brief space experience flights. The activities of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic in particular have been influential in shifting the mind set around space tourism from...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... private US company with outer space mining ambitions is Planetary Resources, whose early investors included Larry Page, Richard Branson and Warren Buffet. It has set its sights on Near-Earth Asteroids which pass within about 50 million...
December 2019
Human conception and childbirth in space
... new space race: Elon Musk is one of those also aiming to be the first to put people on Mars and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has shown interest in taking responsibility for procreation in space by teaming with SpaceBorn United. However...
February 2020
Opportunity knocks for UK space industry
...’, published in 1949, so I have an almost inherited passion for the application of technology and engineering. Will Whitehorn with Richard Branson at Virgin Galactic. What I learnt from my grandfather was that many of his ideas were too far ahead...
