Suborbital Spacelines Are Open For Business

Sirisha Bandla, Virgin Galactic vice president for research operations
Sirisha Bandla, Virgin Galactic vice president for research operations, aboard SpaceShipTwo on July 11.
Credit: Virgin Galactic
Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos are not the first private citizens to venture into space. That distinction falls to a Japanese journalist and a British chemist who visited Russia’s Mir space station 30 years ago. But Branson and Bezos, the high--profile founders of Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin...

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