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By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read July 11 (Reuters) - Flamboyant British entrepreneur Richard Branson is set to fly to space on a Sunday test flight by his Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc, beating fellow aspiring billionaire astronaut and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos by about a week. The launch of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity rocket plane over the New Mexico desert will mark the space tourism company’s first test mission beyond Earth’s atmosphere to carry a full complement of space travelers. From...

Eve Branson, mother of Richard, West End dancer, air hostess and ‘whirlwind of energy’ – obituary After the war, she toured Germany as a dancer with Ensa before becoming a hostess with British South American Airways (later part of BOAC) Eve Branson in her days as an air hostess Eve Branson, who has died aged 96, was a former West End dancer, air hostess and home entrepreneur – and the mother of the Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson, who credited her with passing on “a seemingly limitl...