Virgin Voyages launches month-long trip
Virgin Voyages is targeting a new type of traveler: remote workers. In March, the Miami-based cruise line owned by Sir Richard Branson introduced a month-long cruise called the “Scarlet Summer…
Bill Gates-backed startup confident it can unearth more battery metals
Copper plates on wagons ready for onward shipping at the Mufulira refinery, operated by Mopani Copper Mines Plc, in Mufulira, Zambia, on Friday, May 6, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg |…
Richard Branson, Oppenheimer grandson urge action on AI, climate
Richard Branson believes the environmental costs of space travel will “come down even further.” Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Dozens of high-profile figures in business and politics…
Bill Gates-backed miner discovers large-scale copper deposit in Zambia
A truck makes its way over the Victoria Falls bridge, spanning over the Zambezi River, linking Zambia and Zimbabwe, in Livingstone, Zambia, on Sunday, May 8, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg…
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic flies its first tourists to the edge of space
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic rocketed a handful of tourists, including a former British Olympian and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean, to the edge of space on Thursday. The feat…
Upside Foods hopes cultivated meat goes mainstream
A look at Upside’s prepared chicken product. Upside Foods When Amy Chen took her first bite of chicken meat grown directly from cells in a lab, her initial reaction was…
Richard Branson defends space travel, argues it can benefit planet
Richard Branson on board Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity in July 2021. The billionaire believes the environmental costs of space travel are set to “come down even further.” Virgin Galactic |…
Virgin Orbit a promising company that couldn’t make a profit
Virgin Orbit started as a program of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic in 2012, before being spun off into a separate company five years later. In the private space race, Virgin…
What went wrong with Richard Branson’s company
Virgin Orbit crew poses at the opening bell ceremony as a 70 foot model rocket with satellites is placed in front of the NASDAQ in Times Square of New York…
Virgin Orbit stock plummets after UK launch failure
Cosmic Girl, a Virgin Boeing 747-400 aircraft sits on the tarmac with Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket attached to the wing, ahead of the first UK launch tonight, at Spaceport Cornwall…