virgin galactic he's set to list on the New York Stock Exchange it will be the first publicly traded human space flight business , the announcement came Tuesday but there is no traditional IPO instead of publicly listed shelf %HESITATION will invest about eight hundred million dollars for a forty nine percent stake in virgin galactic founded by Richard Branson in two thousand and four it's in a race to be the first phone to offer sight seeing trips to space this is the other contender blue origin is the space business off Amazon founder Jeff bezels , Manson's timeline for taking up tourists has suffered repeated delays in twenty fourteen the crash of a test flight killed one crew man and injured another , with a target day told me twenty nineteen that could come soon