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Billionaire Richard Branson And Crew Successfully Reach The 'Edge of Space' MORGAN MCFALL-JOHNSEN, BUSINESS INSIDER 12 JULY 2021 Virgin Galactic has launched, flown, and landed its first full crew, positioning the company to start commercial tourist flights to the edge of space in 2022. Billionaire Richard Branson, who founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, was aboard the company's SpaceShipTwo space plane on Sunday morning. He served as a "mission specialist," testing the passenger experience for future customers.   Three other Virgin Galactic employees did the same: Beth Moses, the compan...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA The Unity22 crew at zero gravity. British billionaire Richard Branson, along with five other Virgin Galactic employees launched to suborbital space Sunday July 11, 2021, on the company's first flight with a full crew aboard. (Virgin Galactic/TNS) Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic crew complete suborbital space flight Nearly 17 years after that proclamation, he finally did it. Branson, along with five other Virgin Galactic employees – two pilots and three others who were testing parts of the in-cabin experience, including research opportunities – launched to ...

Space Accidents Fast Facts Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The first space-related fatalities occur when a rocket explodes at the Soviet Union’s Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, killing 165 people, including Air Marshal Mitrofan I. Nedelin, the head of Soviet rocket forces. The accident is officially denied until 1990. March 23, 1961 – Russian cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko is killed during a routine training exercise. Bonda...

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Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic is poised to launch the SpaceShipTwo as early as Saturday on a milestone powered flight test following a month-long delay due to COVID-19 restrictions in New Mexico. The company hopes to send a pair of astronauts, CJ Sturckow and Dave Mackay, aboard the VSS Unity on a suborbital trip, marking the spaceplane’s third crewed test mission. What’s more, this launch will be the first time that a crewed spaceflight has taken off from New Mexico soil — making it only the third American state to actually launch spacecraft overall, behind California and Florida. �...