To the moon and back. By 2020

Commercial trips to the moon for 2020 announced by Golden Spike   Space tourism is a hot topic this year. After Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic voyages, another company announced commercial flights to space. A Colorado-based called Golden Spike plans to send tourists to the moon by 2020. By the end of the decade, Golden Spike intends to … Read more

Branson family to make first voyage into space

Branson family to make first trip on space tourism programme 528 people have been into space since Yuri Gagarin’s historic first mission. Richard Branson announced that Virgin Galactic will have 529 future astronauts signed up to join Virgin in space. British tycoon said that he and his family will be the first on board the … Read more

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic to establish its second spaceport in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi to New Mexico in no more than an hour Branson’s Virgin Galactic to build Spaceport Abu Dhabi Virgin Galactic, the world’s first space tourism company, will establish its second base in Abu Dhabi. Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides appointed Steve Landeene, an executive director of the Spaceport America project (from 2007 to 2010), with the … Read more