Billionaire space race (SEDS). Later, Jeff Bezos became a chapter president of SEDS. In the 1990s, Diamandis, dissolute with the state of space development, decided to spur it on and spark the suborbital space tourism market, by initiating a prize, the X Prize. This led to Paul Allen becoming involved in the competition, creating the Scaled Composites Tier One platform of SpaceShipOne and White Knight One which won the Ansari X-Prize in the 2000s. The technology of the winning entrant was then licensed by Richard Branson's Virgin Group as a basis to found Virgin Galactic. The base techniques of Tier One also form
Virgin Australia Virgin Australia confirmed that he will be leaving the airline before the end of his contract in January 2020. John Borghetti, who has been CEO of Virgin Australia since May 2010 mentioned that his initial plans were to stay in Virgin Australia for three to four years, however the companies growth and success prompted his permanence in the business during the transition period from Virgin Blue to Virgin Australia. Virgin Australia has its head office in Virgin Village in Bowen Hills, Brisbane. As of 2008 1,000 employees work at Virgin Village. The building, with about A-Grade office space, was triple