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>> what a life. that was sir richard branson as he went where no billionaire has gone before, traveling to the edge of space aboard virgin galactic's unity spacecraft and there on your screen, you can see the passenger plane detaching from the mother ship and then rocketing to the final frontier with branson and his crew along for the ride. the team reached zero gravity for just a short period and then made a safe return to earth roughly an hour after takeoff. >> here's cnn's kristen fisher on this short, but historic mission. >> pam, what an exciting here at spaceport, america, in truth and c...

About these billionaires and rich people going into space. that's how big things happen and change is made. if you look back to the beginning of flight, airplanes traveling in the sky, it was rich people that started doing that first. then it became more readily available to the masses. i understand the frustration, but this is the beginning of, as you said, the democratizization of space. boy, that was a textbook test flight. i'm standing literally in the desert. the runway right over my shoulder. the reason you do it in the desert ask in case something happens. this is exactly the same kind ...

Flight, it certainly looks flawless, but we now know we have the official confirmation from the virgin galactic team that it was indeed a textbook test flight. this space plane, spaceship 2, it returned in pristine condition, no issues whatsoever after taking off from space port america in truth or consequences new mexico, a little over two hours ago and took off from the runway behind me, attached to the belly of the mother ship, eve. once it got to the proper altitude, it dropped. the astronauts experienced a few seconds of freefall before the pilots ignited the rocket engine and spaceship 2...