Scenarios about 'Virgin Galactic'
Virgin Galactic is a pioneering commercial spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson in 2004 to develop spacecraft for space tourism. The company has worked to make suborbital spaceflight accessible to civilians, overcoming significant technical and safety challenges including the 2014 VSS Enterprise crash. In alternate history scenarios, Virgin Galactic often represents divergent paths in private space exploration, earlier commercial space travel, or different outcomes in the privatization of space industries.
What If Commercial Space Flight Developed Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where private companies entered space travel decades before SpaceX and Blue Origin, fundamentally altering humanity's relationship with space exploration, technological development, and global economics.