Bill Astling says he knows what it takes to start a new airline in Australia. He says Koala will instead take the approach of Aldi or IGA in Australia's supermarket sector, filling "niches" left by the big two. "It's sort of a sign of, if you like, not illegal, but silent cooperation between Qantas and Virgin to drive the third …
He’s been pipped in the space race by Richard Branson and there was a signature campaign likening him to a comic book villain and urging that his reentry into Earth’s atmosphere be prevented. But the trip is also significant because it will be the first mission featuring a human crew on the New Shepard rocket and capsule manufactured by Blue …
He founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 to provide short space tourist flights to the edge of space and has said he will be a passenger on the first commercial flight. Seeking to upstage Jeff Bezos as the first rocket company owner to go to space, Richard Branson, the British billionaire who founded a galaxy of Virgin companies, announced Thursday night …
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