When was the English business magnate who founded The Spaceship Company born
18 July 1950
Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate, investor and philanthropist.
 He founded the Virgin Group, which controls more than 400 companies.
The Spaceship Company
The Spaceship Company (TSC) is a British/American spacecraft manufacturing company that was founded by Burt Rutan and Richard Branson in mid-2005 and was jointly owned by Virgin Group (70%) and Scaled Composites (30%) until 2012 when Virgin Galactic became the sole owner.
 TSC was formed to own the technology created by Scaled for Virgin Galactic's Virgin SpaceShip program.
 This includes developments on the care-free reentry system and cantilevered-hybrid rocket motor, licensed from Paul Allen and Burt Rutan's Mojave Aerospace.
 The company is manufacturing Virgin Galactic's spacecraft and will sell spacecraft to other buyers.
John Blundell Maple
Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet (1 March 1845 – 24 November 1903) was an English business magnate who owned the furniture maker Maple & Co. Stefan Persson (magnate)
Carl Stefan Erling Persson (] ; born 4 October 1947) is a Swedish business magnate.
 In March 2013, Forbes reported Persson's net worth as $28 billion making him the richest of Sweden's 12 billionaires and the 17th richest person in the world.
 Persson is the chairman and main shareholder in fashion company H&M, which was founded by his father Erling Persson in 1947.
 Persson took over the company from his father in 1982 and served as its manager until 1998.
 Persson also owns a substantial stake in the Swedish technology company Hexagon AB.
 Through his privately held real estate company Ramsbury Invest, Persson owns a large number of properties in London, Paris and Stockholm. Zaria Mimano
Zaria Mimano is an English business magnate and humanitarian.
 She is the founder and chief executive officer of the African oil and gas company Aba Oil, LLC. SpaceShipTwo
The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism.
 It is manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by Virgin Galactic. Mojave Aerospace Ventures
Mojave Aerospace Ventures (MAV) is a company founded by Paul Allen and Burt Rutan to handle the commercial spinoffs from the Tier One project.
 It owns the intellectual property arising from Tier One, and it is in turn owned by Paul Allen (the majority shareholder) and Burt Rutan.
 In 2004, it signed a deal with Virgin Galactic to develop the Virgin SpaceShip, a suborbital spacecraft, for space tourism.
 Virgin Group and Scaled have subsequently formed a joint venture, The Spaceship Company, to manufacture the spacecraft. Indiana Production
Indiana Production is a multimedia company born in December 2005.
 The international company has its headquarter in Milan, with subsidiaries in Rome and Los Angeles.
 Core business of the company is the production of a variety of contents: feature film, commercial, digital and branded content.
 Partners of the company are Fabrizio Donvito, Marco Cohen, Benedetto Habib and Karim Bartoletti. Ricky Van Veen
Richard Raphael "Ricky" Van Veen (born c. 1981) is an American entrepreneur.
 He is the co-founder of CollegeHumor, a popular comedy brand/website and CEO of Notional, a television production company born out of CollegeHumor.
 Van Veen created the site as a student at Wake Forest.
 Van Veen's site was earning between $10-15 million a year before the partners sold a controlling stake to IAC/InterActiveCorp.
 He is also one of the principal owners and founders of Connected Ventures, a company formed around CollegeHumor that included BustedTees and Vimeo. Doug Shane
Douglas Bennett Shane is President of The Spaceship Company, as well as an American test pilot who has trained as a commercial astronaut.
 He was a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites.