Richard Branson

The wings will be replaced with an online registry. This does not affect NASA's astronauts getting their wings, as they receive theirs from the space agency.

Other celebrities, including Angelina Jolie, Leonardo DiCaprio and James Cameron, have reportedly all purchased tickets to fly on upcoming space flights.

A company is looking to pay one sci-fi fan $1,000 to watch a dozen classic movies, including "Apollo 13" and "2001: A Space Odyssey".

The "Star Trek" actor was unmoved by Richard Branson's offer of a ride into space back in 2011.

Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Group, is leading the campaign that aims to eradicate capital punishment across the globe.

In a wide-ranging interview, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson spoke to Newsweek about China, the billionaire space race and government funding.

The launch of Inspiration4 aboard a Falcon 9 e-rocket on September 15 will up the ante in the modern space race.

The picture I found was from Kath's last bucket list vacation. It was taken on July 11, 2015 and Richard Branson actually went to space on July 11, six years later.

The Blue Origin founder wants a NASA contract to help develop a spacecraft that will put humans back on the moon. So far, NASA has only selected SpaceX.

"I would go up in a heartbeat. I think it's such exciting stuff," Buttigieg told the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

"It's hard to get excited about billionaires lighting their money on fire when the planet is headed toward extinction," tweeted writer Molly Knight.

The New Shepard soared past the Kármán Line, which is known as the altitude at which outer space begins, to an altitude of 66.52 miles.

The world's richest man is set to blast off into space on Tuesday on his rocket ship, New Shepard, for an 11-minute journey.

Super Heavy measures 230 feet in height and 30 feet in diameter, and will eventually be used to launch the Starship spacecraft into orbit.

The multi-billionaire Amazon founder says he has "dreamed of traveling to space" since Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon in 1969.

The Amazon founder's rocket, the New Shepard, will launch on Tuesday, July 20, carrying the youngest and oldest astronauts to fly into space.

The Amazon founder and three others will be blasted into space on Tuesday in the aerospace company's first crewed mission.

Billionaire Richard Branson experienced zero gravity as he flew to the edge of space last week, but Matt Groening's cartoon put him there first.

The billionaire tweeted a photo of him and Elon Musk standing in his kitchen, taken the morning of Branson's inaugural flight to the edge of space.

"It's exciting what's happening," Branson said Monday. "Space is absolutely essential for the world."

The commercial spaceflight company has put two seats on a future mission up for grabs following Sunday's successful crewed launch.

The flight represents a major step towards commercial space tourism.

Branson, with his Virgin Galactic team, is set to pip Jeff Bezos, and his Blue Origin project, in getting himself into space.

Bandla has spoken of how "you don't often see" women and people of color in the space industry.

The Virgin Group founder is due to join a team of six on the company's first fully-crewed test flight.

The Virgin Galactic founder's flight this month will see him overtake the Amazon CEO to become the first billionaire to go to space. But Blue Origin's Bob Smith has pointed out Branson won't reach what is known as the Kármán line.

Over 10 seasons, plenty of stars popped up alongside our favourite coffee-loving New Yorkers.

A team of explorers dove over 400 feet into the Great Blue Hole in November and December 2018.

China said that "the Venezuelan government has maintained calmness and restraint and has spared no effort to maintain domestic peace and stability and to effectively avoid large-scale bloody conflicts."

The flight took place early Thursday morning from the Mojave Airport.