Charismatic entrepreneur Richard Branson (born 1950) became well known when his daredevil business tactics were upstaged by his death defying antics as a sportsman. Founder and mastermind of the Virgin business enterprise, Richard Branson hewed a...

1950- British entrepreneur and adventurer who with Per Lindstrand made the first transatlantic (1987) and transpacific (1991) hot-air balloon flights. Perhaps best known for his position as the founder and chairman of The Virgin Group of companies...

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies. Branson's first successful business venture was at age 15, when he published a magazine called Student. He then...

Alexis Glick and Kevin Magee, Executive Vice President, FOX News, will be ringing NASDAQ's opening bell at 9:20 AM in celebration. (Watch it here. Scroll down.) Here's the inaugural schedule for ease of enjoyment: 8:00 AM: Money for Breakfast — Wealth, success and happiness …...

New Mexico officials have set the ground work to lease part of its commercial spaceport to Virgin Galactic as a base for its space tourism company. British entrepreneur Richard Branson and the state signed a 37-page memorandum of agreement Monday, setting the terms of a...

The official outcome of a vote on a tax to pay for a tourism spaceport in southern New Mexico probably won't be known until Friday, but supporters of the project were already claiming victory.Residents of Dona Ana County voted Tuesday on whether to approve a...

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says he wants to undertake a zero-gravity flight aboard an airplane this year as a precursor to a journey into space, a newspaper reported Monday."This year I'm planning a zero-gravity flight and to go into space in 2009," he was quoted as...