Virgin Galactic surface record-breaking activities. As part of Branson's promotion of the firm, he has added a variation of the Virgin Galactic livery to his personal business jet, the Dassault Falcon 900EX "Galactic girl" (G-GALX). The Spaceship Company (TSC) was founded by Richard Branson through Virgin Group (which owned 70%), and Burt Rutan through Scaled Composites (which owned 30%), to build commercial spaceships and launch aircraft for space travel. From the time of TSC’s formation in 2005, the launch customer was Virgin Galactic, which contracted to purchase five SpaceShipTwos and two WhiteKnightTwos; Scaled Composites was contracted to develop and build the initial
Space Tourism Society Space Tourism Society The Space Tourism Society (STS) was founded in 1996. It is the first organization specifically focused on the space tourism industry. Their stated goals, quoted from their website: "To conduct the research, build public desire, and acquire the financial and political power to make space tourism available to as many people as possible as soon as possible." STS has chapters in Japan, Norway, Canada, Malaysia, India, Russia and the United Kingdom, and is an organization member of the Alliance for Space Development. The STS is a California 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in the USA. STS aims to