Richard Branson travels to the edge of space
Richard Branson successfully returned to earth aboard Virgin's rocket-powered plane.
Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson successfully returned to earth aboard Virgin's rocket-powered plane.
Branson is the first billionaire to travel to space aboard a spacecraft he helped fund.
He said, it was the "experience of a lifetime".
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The trip was not too long, and he returned to Earth an hour after leaving.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and SpaceX’s Elon Musk all have plans to visit space in their own rockets, but Branson was the first to do it.
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How high did the Virgin boss travel? His rocket, called Unity, travelled 85km into the atmosphere!
I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. Now I'm an adult in a spaceship looking down to our beautiful Earth. To the next generation of dreamers: if we can do this, just imagine what you can do https://t.co/Wyzj0nOBgX #Unity22 @virgingalactic pic.twitter.com/03EJmKiH8V
— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) July 11, 2021
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