Virgin Galactic has sold 700 more space tickets

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Virgin Galactic has sold around 700 tickets since flying its founder Richard Branson to space over summer, with commercial service expected to begin by the end of 2022, the company said in its financial results Monday. The current price of the fare is $450,000 per seat, well above the $200,000-$250,000 paid by some 600 customers … Read more

Market Movers: Bezos’ first punch sinks RIL in red; Tata Chemicals soars on EV hope

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MUMBAI: In the billionaire brawl over the fate of Kishore Biyani’s Future Retail, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos managed to land the first blow and sank Mukesh Ambani’s into the red territory. The Supreme Court’s verdict of upholding the emergency arbitration order given by a Singapore Court that halts the sale of Future Retail to Reliance Industries … Read more

Medical aspects of Space Tourism

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It is expected that the type of space tourism, which Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are offering in near future, would make space accessible to the general (rich) public. (Source: Voyager Station) By Dr Ajey Lele,  On July 20, 2021, Jeff Bezos the richest man in the world undertook space travel along with three other … Read more

Space tourism: Can you travel as well? Here’s everything you need to know

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Space tourism is the space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes, said Dr. Punita Masrani (Photo: PIB Mumbai) Space tourism is like a wildest dream to many. Recently, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos blasted in space on his rocket company Blue Origin’s first flight. He is now a second billionaire to ride his own spacecraft. … Read more

Blue Origin: Here’s what you need to know about Jeff Bezos’ space dream on launch day

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The space bug caught Bezos’ fancy when he watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon as a five-year-old in July 1969.(Twitter/@blueorigin) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will be on board the Blue Origin when it is launched into space from west Texas today. The flight will have no engineers or test pilots on … Read more

Richard Branson’s space visit, where are Indian billionaires?

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Richard Branson’s VSS Unity was in space only for a few munities and this mission is known as a suborbital mission. (Photo source: AP) By Dr Ajey Lele,  On 11 July 2021, the big showman of civil aviation (Virgin Atlantic) the billionaire Richard Branson, successfully ventured to touch the edge of space to make the … Read more

Billionaire Richard Branson lands safely after touching edge of space

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Ushering in a new space age, Virgin Galactic‘s billionaire CEO Richard Branson on Sunday touched the edge of space with three employees, including one of Indian-origin, and has landed safely back to Earth. “Congratulations to all those who created such a beautiful space,” he said from space. Branson flew aboard his Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity … Read more

Star Wars: Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic flight to usher in a new era of private commercial space travel

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A file photo of Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson outside the New York Stock Exchange (AP) Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson is scheduled to take off with the crew of the test flight of his Virgin Galactic space plane today—two weeks before Jeff Bezos. This would be yet another landmark achievement by Branson, marking a new … Read more

Celebrity guinea pigs: Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos going to Space

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Regrettably, such self-experimentations by physicians and other biological scientists are known to have led to few deaths too. By Dr Ajey Lele In this ongoing phase of Covid-19 epidemic, there has been much discussion about various aspects of vaccine development. Today, there are many people who voluntarily had to offer themselves as a ‘subject’ for … Read more

A New Brand World: From Amazon to Tesla — do brand and product extensions always work?

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Brand extensions work well as it is easier for firms to focus on just the new product rather than face the prospect of creating awareness both for the brand and product, as per industry experts. Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person with a net worth of $187 billion, will travel to space in July as … Read more