How Richard Branson Became The First Space Billionaire: The Virgin Galactic Story

Photo: Richard Branson in zero gravity. Virgin Galactic. Article by Chris Young. Interesting Engineering – July 12, 2021.

From describing space as “difficult” to actually visiting it, here is a brief history of Richard Branson’s bumpy space journey.

“Space is difficult,” Richard Branson said in a 2018 TV appearance with CNN in 2018, “it [literally] is rocket science.”

Three years later, and the Virgin founder and billionaire entrepreneur made it to space, on July 11, aboard one of his company’s space airplanes — though not above the Kármán line, as his counterpart Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin is quick to point out. […]

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Video: The Story of Virgin Galactic – July 10, 2021.