Hawking plans a space voyage on Branson's Virgin Galactic
Talking about plans for a trip to space, British physicist Stephen Hawking said, "I thought no one would take me, but Richard Branson has offered me a seat on Virgin Galactic, and I said yes immediately." Notably, billionaire Richard Branson's commercial spaceflight Virgin Galactic has a reported waitlist of 700 people with each ticket costing about $250,000 (over â¹1.6 crore).