blue origin, richard branson, space tourism, spacex, virgin galactic

Virgin Galactic Soon to Be the 1st Publicly Traded Space Travel Company

British Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has announced that it will merge with Social Capital Hedosophia (SCH), a public investment firm, sometime later this year. The merger will create a new company called Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc., which could end up becoming the first publicly traded commercial space travel company in the world. First to ...

July 21, 2019

Armin Auctor

The New Race to Space

Back in 2014, NASA awarded both Boeing and SpaceX contracts to develop commercial crew transportation systems; the eventual initial missions under these contracts will involve trips to the International Space Station (ISS). In contrast, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin have solid plans to cash in on human space travel by ferrying tourists to the frontier ...

July 14, 2018

David Clapp