Billionaire space race the 2016 International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson elaborated on the Bezos vision previously outlined in the New Glenn announcement. The Blue Origin New Armstrong would be similar in function to the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System that Elon Musk unveiled at the same conference. Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are in the same market, suborbital space tourism, with New Shepard and SpaceShipTwo (Tier 1b), respectively. They are in a race to be first to launch paying customers on short spaceshots, with rival technological philosophies of space capsules and spaceplanes, respectively Virgin Galactic and SpaceX support
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