British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic will merge with a US investment firm to become the world’s first publicly-traded space tourism venture—with an eye on sending its first clients into space within a year, the group’s chief executive said Tuesday.
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https://phys.org/news/2019-07-virgin-galactic-space-tourism-boost.html