Richard Branson is now tackling the suborbital flights
to serve the Space travelers; Yes Branson’s Virgin group has started a space
company called Virgin Galactic. It aims to provide the Suborbital spaceflights
to space and also the take the astronauts to space for any kind of the space
research and also facilitate the launch of the small satellite. Company also
hopes to provide a scheduled space flight to space for human orbiting the
earth. The Virgin galactic spaceflight will be launched from a large aero plane
to give it more speed and altitude as if it was launched from ground. Richard
Branson is one of the most successful men in history and only Israeli businessmen are most successful after him, in the history of UK Billionaires.
According to Finance Yahoo “The final frontier is finally being…frontier. Last week both Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX made large strides in their quest to privatize space for both civilians and astronaut’s alike.Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic was cleared by the FAA for takeoff last Thursday. Branson’s commercial space airliner expects to launch its first flights out of New Mexico by the end of 2014. Nearly 600 people have paid $250,000 to board the shuttle, which will orbit 60 miles above Earth.”
The spaceX had also showed their second
version of the Dragon Spaceship, with such technology itp is big enough to hold about six
people on board and also can land as a helicopter, and this flight has set to
take off by 2016. And Branson had accepted around 580 applications from people.
The ticket is cost around $250,000 per person to take the up to space. "Our
team is working hard to begin routine and affordable space launches from
Spaceport America and this agreement brings us another step closer to that
goal," said CEO of the Virgin Galactic George
Whitesides.
Here is the Richard Branson Supporting Speech for Virgin Glactic
Here is the Richard Branson Supporting Speech for Virgin Glactic
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