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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 building a conglomerate to flying into space, here is a summary of Branson’s life and business:

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 limitless imagination for coming up with new business ideas”. Evette Huntley Flindt, always known as Eve...