Elon Musk’s Pipe Dream Is Over: Hyperloop One Shuts Down
Hyperloop One, Elon Musk’s attempt at futuristic transportation, is officially shutting down, marking the end of a project that aimed to revolutionize travel with high-speed pods.
Hyperloop One, Elon Musk’s attempt at futuristic transportation, is officially shutting down, marking the end of a project that aimed to revolutionize travel with high-speed pods.
The first commercial airliner to cross the Atlantic on a purely high-fat, low-emissions fuel flew Tuesday from London to New York.
Virgin Orbit, the satellite launch provider founded by Sir Richard Branson, has confirmed it is shutting down after selling its facility leases and equipment to three aerospace companies following bankruptcy.
A left-wing bail reform organization is discontinuing its Las Vegas operations after it was sued for helping bail out a repeat offender that shot a restaurant worker 11 times nearly a week later.
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson on Wednesday warned of the distraction caused by the “Twitter war” amid Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s attempted takeover.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has caved to the demands of Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson and will grant both men Commercial Space Astronaut Wings despite previously stripping the billionaires of the astronaut title.
Military and civilian satellites destroyed by enemy forces will be replaced next day, rather than months later, under the plan
It took billionaires to get ordinary people into space, but it is ordinary people who will inspire humans to make their dreams come true.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been stripped of his “astronaut” titles by the FAA. According to the agency’s revised definition of astronaut, the term may only be used for those that “demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety.”
“Bezos, please stay up there. Do the world a favor” tweeted Tulsi Gabbard in response to the launch of Blue Origin’s rocket, carrying the Amazon founder and other passengers into space earlier today.
The future of space exploration will likely be some sort of public-private partnership. If space-bound billionaires are willing to do their part for the nation and if American political leaders have the vision to see space travel as a 1492-like opportunity, then this could be the beginning of a new epoch of American Greatness.
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has become the first space tourism to ride into space aboard a rocket plane that his company has been developing for 17 years. He has beaten billionaire space fans Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who plans to fly to space aboard a Blue Origin rocket later this month.
The FAA has given Virgin Galactic approval to begin transporting commercial passengers to suborbital space aboard its VSS spaceplane. The company promises stunning views of Earth and several minutes of weightlessness during a two-hour trip.
Axiom Space has announced the first four commercial passengers to be rocketed to the International Space Station sometime in 2022.
Richard Branson has congratulated Prime Minister Theresa May for “standing up” to the “extreme right-wing” of her party by stopping a clean Brexit, saying he would “dearly love” a second referendum.
Latin American artists from throughout the hemisphere convened in Cúcuta, Colombia, on Friday for the Richard Branson-sponsored “Venezuela Aid Live” concert to demand dictator Nicolás Maduro allow international aid into the country.
Dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed Thursday that musicians performing at “Venezuela Aid Live,” a concert on the Colombian border with the country to raise funds for humanitarian aid, were “international criminals.”
The socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro has relocated a rival concert intended to drown out an international humanitarian effort on the Colombian border to the Tienditas bridge connecting the two countries, authorities confirmed Wednesday, meaning both concerts will take place in the same location simultaneously.
Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship announced Tuesday the organization of a concert on the Colombian border to celebrate the repressive regime, a direct response to a coordinated effort led by British billionaire Richard Branson to organize a concert on the Colombian side to raise funds for humanitarian aid.
Virgin Group tycoon Richard Branson surprised many last week with the announcement of his involvement in a charity concert to benefit the starving people of Venezuela, entering their third decade of socialism oppression.
Virgin Group billionaire Richard Branson announced on Friday the launch of an effort to raise $100 million in 60 days for the people of Venezuela centered around “Venezuela Aid Live,” a concert featuring some of the biggest names in the Latin American music industry.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated via Twitter recently that universal basic income will become “necessary” if many jobs performed by human workers become automated.
Virgin Atlantic has hailed the “Bright Side of Brexit” in advertising targeting American customers, a stance apparently opposed to the strong anti-Brexit, pro-Euro currency beliefs of co-founder Richard Branson.
LONDON (AP) — Virgin Trains will once again sell the Daily Mail newspaper after complaints about its decision to stop offering passengers the popular tabloid.
The train company part-owned by the remain supporting businessman Sir Richard Branson is withdrawing the Daily Mail newspaper from their onboard shops over apparent concern over editorial positions, reports PR Week. Staff at the train company were told of the decision
Memphis Meats’ roster of investors continues to grow, as self-replicating ‘clean meat’ progresses toward consumer viability.
16 of the world’s richest billionaires have investments in space exploration, according to a new report from Bloomberg Technology.
Sir Richard Branson has been accused of ‘rank hypocrisy’ for campaigning to thwart Britain’s exit from the European Union whilst his airline is pushing a ‘Bright Side of Brexit’ ad campaign to drum up business abroad.
Approximately 5,000 activists rallied in San Diego on Saturday as part of approximately 300 coordinated sister marches across the United States to call on the Trump administration to take action on climate change.
Billionaire Sir Richard Branson is bankrolling a campaign to oust MPs who supported Britain leaving the European Union.
Barack and Michelle Obama enjoyed a blissful excursion in their post-White House life Friday by paying a visit to billionaire music mogul David Geffen’s $300 million yacht with a group of A-list celebrities.
Alaska Airlines purchased Virgin Airlines for $2.6 billion in 2016 and now plans to drop the Virgin America brand in 2019.
There is still much dispute as to precisely what it was that persuaded 17.4 million Britons to vote for Brexit last year. Some may have done it to regain Britain’s sovereignty, some to curb immigration, some because they realised correctly that everyone on the Remain side of the argument from one-hit-wonder gobshite Bob Geldof to that preening renter of overpriced desert islands Richard Branson was a weapons-grade, copper-bottomed tick.
While former President Barack Obama was in the Virgin Islands with British billionaire Richard Branson, he took up kitesu
Businesses should “work together in common cause” to spread a “unified message” of welcome and acceptance to refugees and migrants, an organisation co-founded by Richard Branson has said. Refugees and migrants have been dubbed an “opportunity for humanity” in a
An organisation working to thwart Brexit, set up by close allies of Tony Blair, has received tens of thousands of pounds from billionaire Richard Branson and the backing of singer Bob Geldof and senior Lib Dem and Labour MPs.
(REUTERS) – British lender Virgin Money Holdings Plc (VM.L) reported a 19 percent jump in nine-month gross mortgage lending, and said customer demand continued to be strong after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.
An explosion Thursday in Cape Canaveral during a routine static test-fire of the nine Merlin 1D engines that power the first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is the company’s second catastrophic failure in the last two years, and puts at risk the expected private sector takeover of space flight.
The billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson held secretive talks with the front-runner to become Britain’s next leader to push his campaign to crush the Brexit vote and secure a second referendum. Britain’s Home Secretary Theresa May, who campaigned to stay
Billionaire businessman Richard Branson is calling on Parliament to “reject” the “nonbinding” Brexit vote and is demanding a second referendum. Mr. Branson has insisted the vote was “technically an advisory non-binding referendum for MPs to consider” which should be instantly