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World’s richest man Jeff Bezos completes inaugural space voyage

American billionaire launches from desert site in West Texas and lands safely on earth

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Hottest ever, wettest ever, highest ever. And it's only just beginning.

Irish Times view on the new space race: breaking the bonds of Earth

Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are boldly going where no billionaire has gone before

Richard Branson flies to edge of space in Virgin Galactic spacecraft

Flight comes nine days before Amazon’s Jeff Bezos due to go higher in Blue Origin rocket

It would be wrong to let Jeff Bezos ruin space for the rest of us

It is not the dull frontier the Amazon founder somehow makes it seem

Branson aims to beat Bezos to space with test flight on July 11th

Billionaire now set to travel beyond Earth’s atmosphere days ahead of space race rival

Wally Funk (82) to join Bezos in space flight later this month

In the 1960s Funk was denied the chance to become an astronaut because of her gender

Bezos’s space jaunt, Kanye’s puffer and Boris Johnson’s ‘cruel and unusual punishment’

Planet Business: Office? What office?

Jeff Bezos plans to become one of first civilians in space

Amazon owner, brother and auction winner set to take flight on July 20th

Receding inflation worries calm US markets as tech stocks bounce back

Many European bourses shut for holidays, bitcoin regains ground following slump

Beer could be twice as expensive south of NI Border – lobby

Seen & Heard: Banking on Pfizer; rules hurt investment; and Gates backs green cement

Virgin Atlantic boss warns of long-term hit to business travel

Shai Weiss questions whether corporate trips will ever fully recover from pandemic

Virgin Galactic has unveiled its newest spacecraft, VSS Imagine

First vehicle produced under assembly system critical to space tourism ambitions

‘I love Shane MacGowan. He’s the ultimate ... one of the last punks’

Musician and film-maker Don Letts on Shane MacGowan, The Clash and being black in Britain

Hyperloop adventures, McExperiments and the vaccine ‘dream team’

Planet Business: Anyone for Zoom?

‘The beauty of San Francisco is the diversity’

Wild Geese: Keith O’Reilly, San Francisco

English ‘chumocracy’: Boozy weekends and class disdain with the Camerons

London Letter: David Cameron has been embarrassed by a book about his inner circle

Virgin Atlantic creditors vote for €1.3bn rescue package

Airline has closed Gatwick base and cut more than 3,500 jobs in response to Covid-19 fallout

Branson says Virgin Atlantic will run out of cash unless rescue plan approved

£1.2bn package includes £450 million of creditor deferrals

Two windows for $250k: Virgin Galactic unveils its moodily lit spaceship cabin

SpaceShipTwo comes with all mod cons, including cameras to film you escaping gravity

Branson’s Virgin Group commits £200m of immediate funding for Virgin Atlantic

Additional shreholder support of £400m also committed

Diarmaid Ferriter: Best and worst of times through prism of Italia ’90

A changing country fixated by exploits in Italy and grappling with political turmoil at home

Elon Musk’s SpaceX suit: James Bond meets James T Kirk

The spacesuit looks like 007’s tuxedo, if it was redesigned for the starship Enterprise

‘I’m so lucky to be in the Caribbean – a million miles from Derry Girls’

Wild Geese: Dentist Aoife Monaghan on life on the British Virgin Islands

Wild Geese: ‘A lot of cabin crew would commute, it’s not unusual’

Catherine McGuinness balances flying part time with managing property in London, Dublin

Fintan O’Toole: Governments need to resist corporate blackmail over bailouts

A repeat of the last crash, with ordinary people bled dry, would be catastrophic

Stobart Air facing into fair degree of turbulence

Regional airlines among the hardest by Covid-19 travel restrictions

Branson’s collateral, ‘crazy losses’ and paying to give oil away

Planet Business: Anyone for an acre of Necker Island?

Virgin Australia falls to virus crisis, appoints administrator to find investor

Airline had sought state aid, but government rejected plea

Branson says Virgin needs UK government help to survive

Billionaire tells staff his net worth is calculated on value of his businesses before crisis

How airlines are working to reduce their CO2 one olive at a time

While we wait for battery-powered aircraft to take flight, airlines are using all sorts of tricks to cut fuel and weight

Virgin Galactic shares fall after analysts downgrade stock

Richard Branson’s space transport company has been popular among hedge funds

Why bosses should not be afraid of speaking out on Instagram

Pilita Clark: Social media can be risky but authenticity on such platforms is rewarded

Michael O’Leary lambasts UK bailout of Flybe

Ryanair boss said legal action could be brought over rescue of ‘chronically loss-making airline’

‘Life in Vilnius reminds me of Ireland in the 1990s’

Wild Geese: Sheena McGonigle, originally from Co Meath, now lives in Lithuania

‘I knew energy efficiency in construction would become a revolution’

Inside Track: Conor Walsh, managing director, Encon

Cool Planet Experience wins top themed entertainment award

Enniskerry interactive tourist attraction helps visitors learn about climate change

Funeral mass of Gay Byrne to take place in Dublin on Friday

Bryan Dobson to present ceremony coverage which will be aired on RTÉ and online

Brexit coin meltdown, merger talk and a Virgin Galactic launch of sorts

Planet Business: It’s been another week of wholly unsustainable activity

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Raceix CEO says ‘game-changing’ software provides clear navigational data that is easy to use

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