Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic will take the first generation of space tourists on suborbital flights as early as this year. (discovermagazine.com)
Meanwhile, Virgin Galactic hopes to offer suborbital flights in the air - launched SpaceShipTwo rocket, built by Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, in the next couple of years. (newscientist.com)
In November of last year, Branson announced on his blog that Virgin Galactic, one of 400 Virgin Group companies, would begin accepting bitcoin payments for suborbital flights. (entrepreneur.com)