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Hyperloop One To Close Down – Report
Futuristic travel experiment Hyperloop One to cease operations, as assets sold off and remaining staff made redundant
Virgin Galactic Completes First Commercial Spaceflight
After lengthy pause, Sir Richard Branson venture Virgin Galactic finally delivers paying customers to edge of space
Virgin Galactic Spaceplane Lands Safely After Test Flight
Spaceplane from Virgin Galactic makes first return to edge of space in nearly two years, to restart Richard Branson's space tourism business
Virgin Orbit Shuts Down After Chapter 11 Filing
Sir Richard Branson ends Virgin Orbit operations going forward, with assets being sold off to rivals in space launch sector
Virgin Orbit Lays Off 85 Percent Of Staff
Nearly 700 jobs to go at Sir Richard Branson’s rocket company Virgin Orbit Holdings, amid reports it will cease operations
Virgin Galactic Reopens Space Tourism Ticket Sales
Got a spare $450,000? Sir Richard Branson's space venture restarts ticket sales to edge of space, after brief FAA grounding and tech upgrades
Blue Origin Successfully Completes First Test Flight, After Jeff Bezos Mission
Blue Origin test flight successfully reuses the New Shepard rocket that carried Jeff Bezos and others to space last month
Virgin Galactic Prices Spaceflight Tickets at $450,000 Per Seat
Does that include an inflight meal? Single seat on Sir Richard's Virgin Galactic spacefight priced at an eyewatering $450,000
Jeff Bezos Completes Blue Origin Spaceflight
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos briefly lost his title as the richest man on earth, after he blasted off into outer space today
Sir Richard Branson Wins Battle Of Billionaire Space Race
Sir Richard beats Bezos into outer space. But Blue Origin mocks Virgin Galactic and points out that Sir Richard didn't cross Kármán line
Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic To Beat Jeff Bezos To Space
Beating Bezos. Surprise from Virgin Galactic that its first spaceflight will carry Richard Branson to space before Jeff Bezos
Passenger Bids $28 Million To Join Jeff Bezos On Blue Origin Debut
Blue Origin announces winner of live auction to join Jeff Bezos and his brother on debut spaceflight next month
OneWeb Secures ‘Largest Ever’ Rocket Acquisition For Satellite Internet Launch
Richard Branson and Qualcomm-backed OneWeb moves closer to launch
Facebook To Bring Internet.org Service To Europe
Richard Branson joins in with impromptu and wide-ranging Q&A with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg
When Will Virgin Launch Its Own Electric Car?
Virgin, which already competes in the all-electric Formula E race, said it may develop a consumer vehicle
Winklevoss Twins Use Bitcoin To Pay For Virgin Galactic Space Trip
The twins who claim to have invented Facebook praise the spirit of exploration, compare Richard Branson to Marco Polo
Tim Berners-Lee To Judge £2m Google Prize For UK Tech Charities
Google prize for Brits that want to change the world
LeWeb 2012: Branson Backs $10m Codecademy Financing
Codecademy announces $10m of funding, as Branson looks to expand his investment in tech start-ups