It’s a beautiful day to go to space, Branson tweeted in the morning, posting a photo of himself with fellow billionaire and space-tourism rival Elon Musk. The flight was intended as a confidence-boosting plug for Virgin Galactic, which plans to start taking paying customers on joyrides next year. The supersonic space plane developed by his company. It reached a peak altitude of around 53 miles (85 kilometers), beyond the boundary of space according to the United States, allowing the passengers to experience weightlessness and admire the Earth’s curvature. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (CNN Business) Richard Branson became the first person to ride into space aboard a rocket he helped fund. “Congratulations to all our wonderful team at Virgin Galactic for 17 years of hard hard work to get us this far,” he said during a live feed as the VSS Unity spaceship glided back to Spaceport America in New Mexico. Virgin Galactic is further delaying its next SpaceShipTwo suborbital flight in order to check a potential issue the company says is unrelated to an ongoing FAA. The spaceship carrying Richard Branson touched down after a voyage the British billionaire called an “experience of a lifetime.” Also Read - Why Billionaires Around the World Are Investing in Aerospace Industry | All You Need to Know In founding Virgin Orbit and our sister companies Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company, Richard is extending that vision of tireless do-goodery to space. Branson and his five crewmates soared to space and returned safely to Earth within an hour, reported news agency Reuters. 4.67M subscribers Dislike Share 186,872 views British Billionaire Richard Branson completed his trip to space in his Virgin Galactic spaceship on Sunday.
The well-moneyed business magnate attributed the crash to a brake failure.
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United States: Billionaire Richard Branson set off a world record as he took on his boldest adventure yet in a bid to reach space aboard his own winged rocket ship on Sunday. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital spacecraft took its first full crew, which included the company’s billionaire founder Richard Branson, on a brief foray into space. The nearly 71-year-old Branson and five crewmates from his Virgin Galactic space-tourism company reached an altitude of about 53 miles (88 kilometers) over the New Mexico desert enough to experience three to four minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of the Earth and then safely glided to a runway landing. Richard Branson has suffered what he called a colossal cycling crash in the British Virgin Islands.
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