This is how Richard Branson and team completed Virgin Galactic landmark space travel
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Virgin Galactic Holdings announced that VSS Unity successfully reached space and returned safely to Earth an hour after leaving the ground, completing its first fully crewed spaceflight. Billionaire Sir Richard Branson was one of the space travellers in the plane.
He was accompanied on the mission by Unity’s two pilots, Dave Mackay and Michael Masucci, and three Galactic employees – Beth Moses, Colin Bennett and Sirisha Bandla. They flew high above New Mexico in the US in the vehicle that his company has been developing for 17 years.
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