Stephen Hawking will help Virgin Galactic roll out second SpaceShipTwo on Feb. 19 More than a year after the first SpaceShipTwo rocket plane was destroyed in a fatal test flight, Virgin Galactic says… Read More
Billionaire Space Club pits Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos vs. Richard Branson vs. Paul Allen and more When Jeff Bezos welcomed SpaceX to the rocket landing “club” last week, it set off a round of twittering over… Read More
Richard Branson updates progress on Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo Richard Branson updated the Virgin Galactic blog today with news of what’s going on with the company’s second SpaceShipTwo. Virgin… Read More
Richard Branson invests in drone company 3D Robotics Richard Branson is already pretty well-versed in the airline industry. Now the business mogul is investing some dough into drones.… Read More
Asteroid miners raise $1.5M for public space telescope, name Richard Branson as investor Planetary Resources’ Kickstarter campaign started one month ago with some help from Brent Spiner, ended this past weekend with $100,000 from Sir Richard… Read More
Bill Nye and Star Trek’s ‘Data’ helping asteroid miners with ‘unprecedented’ new project Planetary Resources is on a mission to mine near-earth asteroids and now they want you to join in on the fun, too. The… Read More
Virgin Galactic breaks sound barrier, set to reach full space flight by end of 2013 Virgin Galactic took a big step in its quest for space travel today with a successful test flight of the… Read More
