

“We will continue with that ethos as we expand our fleet, build our operations and underpin Virgin Galactic’s position as the spaceline for Earth,” he said.“When we created Virgin Galactic, we started with what we believed would be an optimal customer experience and then built the spaceship around it,” Branson said in a statement.In fact, Virgin Galactic shared a design of its spaceship back in July 2020, showing off a cabin that could provide a unique experience for space travelers, as I wrote for the Deseret News. In fact, there’s a goal to bring customers to the stars. Virgin Galactic and the future of space travelīranson and Virgin Galactic have larger plans than Branson's trip. But Branson changed his mind once word got out that Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos announced he planned to ride his own flight to space on July 20. He was due to take off later this summer. The trip comes after years of Branson yearning to visit space, The Associated Press reports. Inside #Branson ‘s #VirginGalactic …from Washington Post /pWnys6223a- Greta Van Susteren July 11, 2021 The flight was “the fourth time the craft has reached that goal, but the first time with all six seats occupied,” according to The Washington Post. During the historic spaceflight of Sir Richard Branson in July, near the end of the burn of the VSS Unity spacecraft's engine, a red light appeared on a console.The FAA confirmed in a statement to CNET on Thursday.
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The SpaceShipTwo Unity reached “the 50-mile altitude that the Federal Aviation Administration recognizes as the edge of space,” The Washington Post reports. 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 much-hyped flight to the edge of space was the company's first with a full crew, including billionaire founder Richard Branson, aboard.The ship then traveled to the edge of space before it soared back down toward Earth, where it reached a runway landing. From there, pilots fired off the engines. Per The Washington Post, the space plane launched from a mother ship, which carried it 45,000 feet into the air. How the SpaceShipTwo Unity space plane reached space Branson and his crew broke the barrier into known space before coming back down to New Mexico. Video footage showed the ship soar into the sky toward space. RxGYp90nu8- Virgin Galactic July 11, 2021 Take-off! The #Unity22 crew including leave Spaceport America, New Mexico for #VirginGalactic’s first fully-crewed spaceflight.
