Virgin Galactic celebrates first day on the New York Stock Exchange

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales/The Verge Space tourism venture Virgin Galactic is now a publicly traded company, thanks to a reverse merger. The company’s billionaire founder, Richard Branson, was on hand at the New York Stock Exchange Monday morning to celebrate the public offering, along with firework shows and a giant banner of his eye adorning the outside of the building.
For its first day of trading, the company’s stock — under the ticker SPCE — was on the rise for