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Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic crew members enter the company s passenger rocket plane, the VSS Unity, in a still image from undated handout video taken at Spaceport America
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Read Full Story British billionaire Richard Branson was due on Sunday to climb into his Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane and soar more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert in the vehicle s first fully crewed test flight to the edge of space. His ride-along also upstages rival astro-tourism venture Blue Origin and its founder, Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos, in what has been popularized as the billionaire space race. Bezos has been planning to fly aboard his own suborbital rocketship, the New Shepard, later this month.
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