Virgin Galactic plans to conduct just one more test flight before it will begin flying paying customers. Virgin Spaceship Unity and Virgin Mothership Eve take to the skies on it's first captive carry flight on 8th September 2016 Virgin GalacticĮverything you need to know about Richard Branson going to space this weekend The up-and-coming sector has for years been seeking to make suborbital space tourism (a relatively simple straight-up-and-down flight, as opposed to orbiting the Earth for longer periods) a viable business with the aim of allowing thousands of people to experience the adrenaline rush and sweeping views of our home planet that such flights can offer. Grammy-nominated artist Khalid is also expected to perform an as-yet-unreleased song on an outdoor stage.īranson’s flight - which came just nine days before Amazon bilionaire Jeff Bezos is slated to rocket into suborbital space aboard his own company’s spacecraft - is a landmark moment for the commercial space industry. Earlier on Sunday, Branson tweeted a picture of himself and a barefoot Elon Musk hanging out. Surrounding SpaceShipTwo’s takeoff was - in typical Branson fashion - a high-production party with friends, family, employees and a few VIPs in attendance. This flight marked only the fourth test flight of the vehicle that reached the edge of space. Watch the livestream: /lYXHNsDQcU- Virgin Galactic July 11, 2021 'To all you kids down there.' - message from zero gravity. Now I’m an adult in a spaceship…If we can do this, just imagine what you can do,” he said. Virgin GalacticĪs Branson floated around in microgravity, he taped a message using cameras onboard the space plane: “To all you kids out there - I was once a child with a dream, looking up to the stars.

Virgin Galactic spaceplane VSS Unity rockets to outer space, with Richard Branson and crew onboard.

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