richard branson
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Richard Branson Creates New Space Venture To Launch US Government And Military Spacecrafts
Richard Branson could play a part in the upcoming star wars. The billionaire’s satellite-launch company Virgin Orbit has started a new venture, Vox Space, aimed at wooing US government clients.
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Richard Branson Got In Bloody Bike Crash, Lived To Blog About It
In a new blog post for Virgin.com, billionaire Richard Branson writes about his recent flirtation with death, when he got into a gruesome bike accident while training for the Virgin Strive Challenge in the Caribbean.
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How Many Taxpayer-Funded Spaceports Does Richard Branson Need?
Space tourism sounds pretty fun, if exorbitantly expensive. The ticket to ride is far from the only pricy thing about it. Building a spaceport for launches and returns costs hundreds of millions. So why does Sir Richard Branson now want to build one in the UK, right after finishing one in America — which isn’t…
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Virgin Is Cancelling Its Deep-Ocean Mission
In addition to Richard Branson’s lofty ambitions in space, the entrepeneur-explorer also has a project to send paying customers to the bottom of the ocean. Or, rather, had: it seems that very quietly, and with none of the fanfare surrounding the original launch, Virgin has shelved its current deep-sea project.