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This photo provided Virgin Galactic shows passengers during Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight on Thursday August 10, 2023. Virgin Galactic rocketed to the edge of space with its first tourists Thursday. The space plane glided back to a runway landing at Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert, after a brief flight that gave passengers a few minutes of weightlessness.(Virgin Galactic via AP)

Virgin Galactic flies its first tourists to the edge of space

By Susan Montoya Bryan and Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

This Sept. 19, 2019, file photo shows Jeff Bezos speaking at the National Press Club in Washington. The Smithsonian Institution announced July 14, 2021, that Bezos, founder of Amazon and space-flight company Blue Origin, is donating $200 million to the National Air and Space Museum. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: Excited to see how space changes me

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The rocket plane carrying Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and other crew members flies toward space from Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, N.M., Sunday, July 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson blasts off into space

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this 2019 photo made available by NASA, Mercury 13 astronaut trainee Wally Funk visits the Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio. On Thursday, July 1, 2021, Blue Origin announced the early female aerospace pioneer will be aboard the company’s July 20 launch from West Texas, flying as an “honored guest.” (NASA via AP)

Richard Branson announces trip to space, ahead of Jeff Bezos

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

FILE - IN this Oct. 23, 2019 file photo, Richard Branson arrives to Ben Gurion airport to inaugurate the start of Virgin Atlantic airline in Israel in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Virgin Group Chairman feels the time has come to galvanize business leaders in a movement to eradicate the death penalty, a cause he has ardently supported for years. A group of 18 business leaders led by the British billionaire launched a campaign Thursday, March 18, 2021, they hope will quickly build, signing a declaration that called on all governments to end executions. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Branson leads business group demanding end to death penalty

By ALEXANDRA OLSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 16. 2011, file photo, Richard Branson, president of Virgin Atlantic Airways, attends a news conference in Miami Beach, Fla. Branson announced that Virgin was starting flights between London and Cancun, Mexico. Virgin Atlantic, the airline founded by British businessman Branson, filed Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, for relief from creditors as the virus pandemic hammers the airline industry. The airline made the filing in U.S. federal bankruptcy court in New York after a proceeding in the United Kingdom. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Virgin Atlantic airline files for US bankruptcy protection

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Richard Branson is presented with a space-themed cake during a luncheon attended by 100 Virgin Galactic ticket holders, to mark his 69th birthday and in recognition of the Apollo 11 moon landing anniversary at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Thursday, July 18, 2019, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Richard Branson inspired by Apollo, his own space shot soon

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, March 27, 2017 file photo, Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Atlantic and the Virgin Group, smiles at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. Branson has warned that a no-deal Brexit will force the company to invest less in Britain because of pressures on the pound. Branson has told the BBC on Thursday, July 11, 2019 that if the U.K. leaves the European Union without a deal, it will force his company to shift investment because its costs are in dollars. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)

Branson: Pound could be just a dollar in ‘no-deal’ Brexit

By DANICA KIRKA and PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2011, file photo a crowd gathers outside Spaceport America for a dedication ceremony as Virgin Galactic's mothership WhiteKnightTwo sits on the tarmac near Upham, N.M. British billionaire Richard Branson is taking another concrete step toward offering rides into the close reaches of space for paying passengers. Branson announced Friday, May 10, 2019, that Virgin Galactic will immediately begin shifting operations from California to a spaceport and specialized runway in the New Mexico desert in final preparations for commercial flights. He says Virgin Galactic's development and testing program has advanced enough to make the move, which will continue through the summer. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

Space-tourism enters ‘home stretch’ toward commercial flight

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

An employee holding British flags waves as Richard Branson, of Virgin Group, left, departs on a Brightline train bound for Miami, Thursday, April 4, 2019, in West Palm Beach, Fla. The state's Brightline passenger trains are being renamed Virgin Trains USA after Branson invested in the new fast-rail project that is scheduled to connect Miami with Orlando. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Correction: Florida Train Service-Branson story

By TERRY SPENCER - Associated Press

This photo combo of file photos shows opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president of Venezuela Juan Guaido, left, on Feb. 8, 2019 and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, on Feb. 7, 2019, both in Caracas, Venezuela. Dueling concerts will literally set the stage for a showdown on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, between Venezuela’s government and an opposition vowing to draw masses of people to push humanitarian aid into Venezuela despite Maduro's objections. (AP Photos/Ariana Cubillos)

1 killed, 12 injured amid aid standoff in Venezuela

By Christine Armario and Luis Andres Henao - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2018 file photo, British business magnate Richard Branson appears at a ceremony honoring him with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in Los Angeles. Branson said on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, that he hopes that the concert that he is throwing for a humanitarian aid effort for Venezuela helps saves lives by raising funds for “much-needed medical help.” (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP File)

Venezuela’s Maduro to throw concert rivaling Richard Branson

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Emirates' vice president and prime minister, left, next to Richard Branson watch the Hyperloop One presentation aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, April 29, 2018. DP World's chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem said Sunday that Virgin Hyperloop One would launch a freight service called DP World Cargospeed. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Port operator DP World now firmly in hyperloop business

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Richard Branson announces Virgin Hotel for Scotland in 2020

By BETH J. HARPAZ - Associated Press

Branson sells stake in Virgin Atlantic in broader tie-up

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Richard Branson criticizes airline for branding decision

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New name for Branson’s cruise ship line: Virgin Voyages

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Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, left, laughs as he cuts the tie of Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez, Tuesday, June 23, 2015, at Perez Art Museum in Miami, after a news conference where it was announced that Virgin Cruises will set sail from PortMiami in 2020. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Richard Branson says 2020 Miami sail for Virgin Cruises

By MARISOL MEDINA - Associated Press