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Popular Mechanics
July 29, 2008
Barbara S. Peterson |
What Virgin's WhiteKnightTwo Really Means to the Future of Space Even with prototypes now just about ready to fly, how relevant is this self-styled New Space Race?   |
Popular Mechanics
January 23, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
Virgin Galactic and Burt Rutan Unveil SpaceShipTwo: First Look Burt Rutan's commercial spacecraft is 60 percent complete and test flights could occur this year. |
The Motley Fool
January 20, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Fly the Friendly... Casino Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson promises to turn the new Airbus A380 into an airborne gaming hall. If global airlines follow suit, gaming technology stocks could offer huge jackpots for investors. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
David Schneider |
Virgin Galactic Space Planes Should Launch This Year $200,000 buys you a seat and the end result should be something science-fiction writers have long dreamed of: regularly scheduled passenger flights into space. |
InsideFlyer
March 2011 |
Virgin Alliance News reports say that Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways has said that the airline plans to join a global alliance within a year. |
BusinessWeek
August 14, 2006
Kerry Capell |
Green is Virgin Territory Sir Richard Branson is a billionaire with a conscience, and he's turning his Virgin Group into a green empire while talking up conservation |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2009
Adrian Rush |
One Small Step Closer to Civilian Spaceflight Virgin Galactic promises a "theatrical unveil" as the world's first commercial passenger aircraft designed for space travel gets set for its unveiling in the Mojave Desert. |
Fast Company
September 2006
Alan Deutschman |
The Enlightenment of Richard Branson In a world where companies routinely bedevil customers, the Virgin chief is an angel, because he truly puts customers first. |
Popular Mechanics
February 6, 2009
Michael Belfiore |
Win a Private Space Flight for $20--Pending Success of Commercial Spaceflight Sir Richard Branson hopes to offer tickets to ride in orbit for around $200,000. But new contests are promising flights for as little as $20. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Virgin Starts (70) Mile-High Club Airline entrepreneur Richard Branson aims to take his company to the final frontier. Virgin Galactic will allow tourists to enjoy 4 minutes of weightlessness in space. |
Wired
January 2005
Spencer Reiss |
Rocket Man Richard Branson conquered the world with the Virgin brand. Now, through a deal being negotiated with SpaceShipOne's owners, he wants to fly you to space with Virgin Galactic, the world's first off-the-planet private airline. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2008
Tim Beyers |
White Knight Courts Virgin If successfully tested, WhiteKnightTwo will prove that composites are perfectly usable for building high-altitude aircraft. Imagine how that might transform the airline industry. |
Entrepreneur
November 2008
Mike Werling |
Branson: A Man of Many Milestones Richard Branson isn't defined by business or personal success. His life is a combination of both. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Space Adventures Ready for Blast-Off The privately held space tourism outfit buys its own rocketry technology. Are we witnessing the birth of the first space lines? |
Entrepreneur
April 2005
Mark Henricks |
Space Cowboys High-profile entrepreneurs pursue the final frontier. |
Popular Mechanics
March 26, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
California Startup XCOR Joins Space Tourism Race (With Video) Rocket engine manufacturer XCOR Aerospace offered a first look at its Lynx spacecraft, a uniquely designed two-seat plane that will be able to make several trips to space per day. |
BusinessWeek
March 8, 2004
Capell & Zellner |
Richard Branson's Next Big Adventure He has no qualms about jumping into the tough airline market in the U.S. |
InsideFlyer
April 2008 |
60 Seconds with World's First Space Tourist Redeeming mileage for space travel. |
InsideFlyer
January 2010 |
60 Seconds with Alan Lias, Head of Loyalty & Business Development, Virgin Atlantic Airways Virgin Atlantic is making a strong effort to reach customers in front of a computer. |
Salon.com
July 10, 2000
Katharine Mieszkowski & Kaitlin Quistgaard |
Cell hell What is Virgin Atlantic thinking, inviting cellphones to invade the last vestige of chatter-free space? |
BusinessWeek
June 25, 2007
Greg Lindsay |
How To Avoid The Big Squeeze In The Sky Too close for comfort in coach? Try premium economy class. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Southwest Airlines Still Soaring Southwest's passengers don't fly in luxury, but shareholders get first-class treatment. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2006
Logan Ward |
Burt Rutan: Final Frontiersman Rutan is working to make space travel cheap enough-and safe enough-for ordinary people to experience. If anyone can pull that off, says Apollo 11 astronaut and PM editorial adviser Buzz Aldrin, it's probably Rutan. |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2007
Christopher Palmeri |
Space: The Private Frontier "Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots is Boldly Privatizing Space" is a worthwhile overview of the budding business of space travel. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Will Virgin Save You Money? Virgin America, the newest part of the British Virgin Group, started flying yesterday, offering discounted promotional fares to raise business. For existing carriers, this is bad news. For transcontinental passengers, it could be good. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2011
James Oberg |
The Scientist as Space Tourist Private rockets like SpaceShipTwo will offer space-based science on the cheap. |
InternetNews
October 27, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Silicon Valley Goes Into Orbit Got a few extra million just burning a hole in your pocket? A number of Silicon Valley pioneers are spending their spare change for a ticket into space. |
Outside
December 2007 |
Richard Branson A conversation with Richard Branson, sportsman, swashbuckler, aviation folk hero, all-around bon vivant, and most recently, global do-gooder. |
Fast Company
October 2004
Alan Deutschman |
The Gonzo Way of Branding Billionaire Richard Branson has thrived by breaking the rules. Now he's tackling his greatest challenge, setting his sights on the United States and a new airline. He's testing himself and the limits of the Virgin brand. |
Popular Mechanics
July 2007
Glenn Harlan Reynolds |
Future of the Space Business: How Private Rocketeers Got Real To achieve liftoff at this watershed moment when they could begin to usurp NASA's stranglehold on space, billionaires rely on the propulsive power of profit in an industry based on competition and smarts. |
The Motley Fool
January 10, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Stocks' Final Frontier As we reach for the stars, are there opportunities for investors in the new space race? |
AskMen.com
Terry Baldwin |
Top 10: Luxury Airlines - Part I Which international airlines offer the plushest service and the most perks in first class? Here are five of the best in the world. |
BusinessWeek
December 29, 2010
Brad Stone |
Will Richard Branson's Virgin America Fly? The fun carrier has shown promise, despite byzantine regulations, powerful rivals, and airlines' tendency to hemorrhage money during recessions and spikes in fuel prices. But Virgin is at a turning point, and its future is far from certain. |
Entrepreneur
November 2008
Sara Wilson |
Be Like Branson Is Richard Branson, the man who treats life -- and business -- as an extreme sport more like you than you think? |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
James Oberg |
Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away This year, commercial spaceflight will really take off |
Fast Company
November 1, 2007
Linda Tischler |
After the Virgin Birth Fred Reid, CEO of the fledgling carrier Virgin America, talks management strategy and explains his beef with airline food. |
Inc.
March 2006
Max Chafkin |
Updates Entrepreneur of the Year starts another company... Brightstar withdraws IPO filing, continues global expansion... |
Fast Company
October 2005
Lucas Conley |
Profitable Player Runner-up: Virgin Atlantic This airline isn't afraid to spend big on customer amenities, and the business is flying high. |
InsideFlyer
January 2010 |
Virgin Credit British Airways has wowed frequent flyers with its offer of 100,000 miles for obtaining a co-branded credit card. |
Inc.
January 2005
David H. Freedman |
Entrepreneur of the Year In the entrepreneurial achievement of 2004, Burt Rutan became the first private businessman to launch human beings into space. His ultimate goal: to make space flight routine -- and turn a big profit. |
Salon.com
July 7, 2000
Don George |
Cellphones in the sky Virgin Atlantic wins the race for incoming in-flight cellphone calls. |
CRM
August 2010
Lior Arussy |
When Customer Experience Matters Most An eruption of volcanic ash leads to an eruption of service mistakes. |
Fast Company
October 2004
Alan Deutschman |
Branding the Branson Way Marketing methods from Virgin's founder Richard Branson. |
Popular Mechanics
December 9, 2009
Rand Simberg |
Virgin Galactic's Unveil Is Tip of the Iceberg for Private Spaceflight The ability to fly experimenters and their experiments into suborbit, regularly and cheaply, could be a game changer in terms of research progress. |
Popular Mechanics
August 9, 2007
Laurel Donaldson |
5 Virgin America In-Flight Gadgets That Should Be on Every Flight From lavatory lounge music to LED mood lighting that mimics the phases of a Space Age sunset, Virgin has decked out a fleet of Airbus A320's to make them the sexiest commercial aircraft yet. |
InternetNews
September 14, 2007
Catherine Pickavet |
A 'Virgin' Go Round For Sky-High Broadband A partnership between Virgin America and AirCell will allow passengers to remain connected 35,000 miles above ground. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2004
Seth Jayson |
SpaceDev Burns Rubber This is hardly a risk-free investment, but if you're the kind of person who wants to have a share of Harley-Davidson or Disney because you're a fan, here's your chance to own a bit of the next space race. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Facing Competition, SpaceShipTwo Gets Set: Behind the Scenes SpaceShipTwo, the first spacecraft expressly designed for tourists, may begin test flights in 2009. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Blue Origin Lifts Off Bezos' prototype spacecraft nicknamed Goddard climbed to 285 feet before descending back to Earth. That's an important step forward on a long path toward the heavens. History teaches that billion-dollar innovations are created slowly. |
Fast Company
November 2010
Suzy Evans |
The Progression of Air Travel Highlights from the history of air travel. |
