Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic bags a first - just not in space
The project has been running for 15 years without yet achieving a commercial launch
03 November 2019 - 00:21
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic became the first space-tourism business to go public as it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange this week. The listing, carried out through a merger with a shell investment company that was already trading, secures vital new funding for Branson as the British entrepreneur competes with fellow billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in what's been dubbed "the new space race".
The deal gives Virgin Galactic a market value of about $2.4bn (R36bn), the company said...
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