It’s about 5 p.m. and Richard Branson is visibly tired. The owner of Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Hotels, and Virgin Galactic – to name a few of his hundreds of enterprises – has just officially ...

The spaceflight company founded by billionaire Richard Branson completed its effort Thursday to take paying customers for the first time to the edge of space. Once promising satellite-launch startup ...

Virgin Galactic spaceship launched Sunday morning in New Mexico. Mission accomplished. Billionaire Sir Richard Branson flew to the lower edge of space and back to planet Earth on Sunday in the first ...