Richard Branson

In an interview with The Daily Mail on July 11, hours before his scheduled lift-off, Branson said he's bringing the Pride flag with him as a tribute to the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.

If Richard Branson is able to complete the mission before July 20, he is likely to beat fellow billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in the new space race.

Sirisha Bandla was born in Andhra Pradesh’s Guntur and grew up in Texas. She started working at Virgin Galactic in 2015.

A successful flight by Branson aboard Virgin's VSS Unity spaceplane would mark a key milestone in a race to usher in a new era of private commercial space travel.

The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) nod to billionaire Sir Richard Branson's spaceship company Virgin Galactic has made it the first to get permission to fly customers.

Blue Origin is planning a live auction on Saturday to conclude the month-long bidding process for a seat on the sightseeing trip to space next month with the company's founder, billionaire Amazon.com Inc executive Jeff Bezos.

Virgin Galactic has been planning the flight before the announcement from Jeff Bezos's company on June 7.

As part of its agreement with the Johnson Space Center, the space tourism company will identify entities keen to buy private missions and develop training packages, as well as aid in transportation, on-orbit and ground resources.

The Virgin Group founder noted in his letter that over the five decades that he has been in business, this is the most challenging time he has ever faced.

The move came after the airline, which suspended almost all flights last month following wide-spread travel bans, failed to secure A$1.4 billion (USD 887.60 million) loan from the federal government.

Virgin Atlantic last month asked the government for emergency financial help in addition to the coronavirus package made available to all British companies, but a deal has not yet been reached.

The British entrepreneur said he will be meeting chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday to clear any "misunderstandings" and also gauge his administration's interest to take the project forward. He had already paid a curtsey visit to the chief minister Wednesday.

On this edition of Digging Deeper with Moneycontrol, we will outline the many lessons his life and work have thrown up for startup aspirants.

British billionaire Richard Branson on Friday suspended business links with Saudi Arabia, and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he might not attend a major investment conference in the country this month amid reports that Jamal Khashoggi may have been killed at the Saudi consulate in Turkey's capital.

Branson also said he would suspend his directorship in two Saudi tourism projects around the Red Sea, citing Khashoggi's disappearance. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

If the project comes to fruition, passengers will be able to travel from Bangalore to Chennai in a matter of just 20 minutes.

"Being a part of a team and learning from each other has been an integral part of my development. I face multiple situations in organisations that I am involved with where my on-field learnings often benefit these organisations," said Tendulkar.

The Virgin Group boss hit a hump in the road on Virgin Gorda, one of the islands in the Carribbean, catapulting him into the road.

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