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By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Steve Gorman
(Reuters) â Virgin Galactic Holding Inc acknowledged on Tuesday that billionaire founder Richard Branson never rode a bicycle to the launch site of his space flight on Sunday, as depicted in a highly publicized video included in the companyâs webcast of the event.
The video clip showed Branson riding his bike toward New Mexicoâs state-owned Spaceport America near the town of Truth or Consequences, flanked by two SUVs, and handing his safety helmet to an assistant upon arrival.
Branson, 70, is then seen greeting crewmates dressed in their flight suits with a hug, with one of them, Beth Moses, the companyâs chief astronaut instructor, telling him, âYouâre late, hurry up.â
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Virgin Galactic acknowledges Branson s pre-launch bike ride never happened
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Virgin Galactic’s Branson climbs into space on a rocket plane made by Reuters
By Steve Gorman
TRUTH OR CONCLUSIONS, NM (Reuters) – British billionaire Richard Branson climbed more than 50 kilometers from the New Mexico desert on Sunday on a Virgin Galactic rocket and safely returned to space with his first vehicle equipment, a landmark project he started 17 years ago.
Branson, one of six employees at Virgin Galactic Holding Inc., has taken on a mission linked to the trip, taking it as a pioneer of the new space tourism era, with the company he founded in 2004 with the intention of starting commercial operations next year.