Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic prepares to go public
by Gwyn Topham and Julia Kollewe from Science | The Guardian on (#4JS68)
Deal will help fund venture until its spaceships can operate commercially and make profit
The billionaire space race has reached a new frontier after Sir Richard Branson announced plans to list Virgin Galactic as a public company on the New York stock exchange.
The Virgin tycoon is vying with SpaceX, founded by Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, and Blue Origin, owned by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, to be the first business to provide commercial passenger flights in space.
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