Tag: BRANSON

If you were ponying up $100,000-per-seat for you and someone special to take a ride on Richard Branson's SpaceShipTwo into the outer atmosphere, chances are it'd be a moment that you'd have a hard time forgetting. That said, some couples are taking things a bit further to make that journey a memorable one. One as-yet-identified couple has plans to get married while out there, and it looks like ...

SpaceShipOne from Scaled Composites was the first, the first commercial ship to probe the (sub-orbital) heavens. It's successor, SpaceshipTwo has been revealed and, for just $200,000 each, you and five friends can sign up for a two and a half hour trip waaay up there. It'd be the trip of a lifetime, but at a cost many would have to spend their entire lives saving for. Now another company, XCOR, ...

Sir Richard Branson is a bit of an adventurer, something of a gadget freak, and a very, very rich man. His Virgin Group runs everything from record shops and mobile phone providers to airlines and hot air balloons. Last week, he came to the United States to celebrate the first flight of Virgin America, a sort of high-end low-cost airline that is currently making very limited flights out of New ...