Factbox: Branson’s Virgin Galactic and the quest for space tourism

(Reuters) – A brief look at Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, which suffered a setback on Friday to its plans for a new era of space tourism when its experimental spaceship crashed during a test flight in California: SpaceShipTwo was designed and built by Scaled Composites, a Mojave, California-based subsidiary of defense contractor Northrop Grumman. Virgin Galactic is owned by Branson’s London-based Virgin Group, with outside investment from Aabar Investments, which is controlled by the Abu Dhabi government. …
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