REFILE-UPDATE 1-Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic plans to go public by end-2019
July 09, 2019 at 06:52 AM EDT
Billionaire Richard Branson's space-tourism venture, Virgin Galactic, plans to go public by the end of this year as part of a deal with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) created by venture-capital firms Social Capital and Hedosophia, the companies said on Tuesday.