Important Innovations Collection

Britain Joins Space Tourism Race with Spaceports Source:  Virgin Galactic Readies for Blast-Off Britain will provide Europe's first spaceports to send tourists into space for vacations.  The UK Space Agency is drafting regulations to permit humans to be launched in spacecrafts to sub-orbital flights from spaceports in Cornwall and in the Scottish Highlands.  This is more globally important confirmation of space tourism launching on the near horizon to provide an exciting new chapter of space travel for global tourists. Virgin and Sir Richard Branson The British government has signed a deal with Virgin Orbit to start building the facilities to launch the spacecrafts.  Virgin CEO Sir Richard Branson is a visionary on aviation and an early advocate of tourist travel into space.  His Virgin Galactic space travel company is the most likely candidate to take tourists beyond the atmosphere of the Earth into space to experience weightlessness and see the p...

Coming to the US with Acceleration Courtesy:  Brightline Travelling Sir Richard Branson's Rails High speed rail service is accelerating globally in China, Japan, and Europe.  It's now on track for the United States.  One of Sir Richard Branson's many travel/investment companies - Virgin Trains USA and Brightline - are leading the way. 2019 All Aboard Virgin Trains USA hopes to launch routes connecting Orlando to Tampa, Florida in 2019.  It will then turn to an ambitious project to link Los Angeles to Las Vegas by high speed rail.  That happens to be Virgin's most popular airplane route in the US. Partnership with Brightline Trains Virgin is partnering with Brightline Trains on this US rollout.  Virgin has taken a minority financial stake in Brightline.  Brightline will rebrand in January 2019 as Virgin Trains USA.  Brightline provides high speed passenger trains in the South Florida corridor between Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West ...