Virgin to the moon

The billionaire space race has reached a new frontier after Sir Richard Branson announced plans to list Virgin Galactic as a public company on the New York stock exchange. The Virgin tycoon is vying with SpaceX, founded by Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, and Blue Origin, owned by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, to be the first business to provide commercial passenger flights in space. September Sir Richard Branson announces launch of Virgin Galactic , saying passengers could be flown into space by December A contract is signed for a new Philippe Starck-designed spaceport for Virgin Galactic in New Mexico - to take tourists to space. The likely flight date is now

How would it feel to look up into the sky at night and be able to say you own a piece of the Moon? The Moon has been present in our night sky throughout history and without its effects on the tides and gravitational pull on the Earth - human life may not have been the same. Now you can possess a piece of this history as well as over square metres of genuine solid land. Who knows — one day you might even get to visit your land! Please note that this is a novelty gift and we make no guarantees about the legal ownership of the moon.

Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists and suborbital launches for space science missions. Virgin Galactic's founder, Richard Branson , had originally hoped to see a maiden flight by the end of , [2] but the date was delayed for several years, most seriously by the October in-flight crash of VSS Enterprise. Virgin Galactic was founded in by British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson , who had previously founded the Virgin Group and the Virgin Atlantic airline, and who had a long personal history of balloon and surface record-breaking activities. In July , three Scaled Composite employees were killed and three critically injured at the Mojave spaceport while testing components of the rocket motor for SpaceShipTwo.

Virgin Galactic is set to carry out a milestone test flight of its rocket-powered tourist plane on Saturday. This will be the first crewed flight of its reusable Unity vehicle to take off from the purpose-built commercial spaceport in New Mexico, US. Sir Richard Branson's company will begin space tourism flights in