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The VSS Unity space plane is set to carry its first full crew to the edge of space on Sunday. The launch is now set for 10:30 am ET. Virgin Galactic is livestreaming the whole thing.
On 11 July 2021 Virgin Galactic became the first spaceflight company to independently launch a founder of the company into space, using the 50-mile (80 km) high US definition of space, having flown founder Richard Branson above the 50-mile (80 km) mark on flight Unity 22 [note 2].
Virgin Galactic Unity 25 was a sub-orbital spaceflight by Virgin Galactic that took place on 25 May 2023. The flight used their SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity.The crew consisted of six Virgin Galactic employees.
The 11 July 2021 flight was the first time more than three people flew suborbitally on a spaceflight and the first time more than one passenger flew on a suborbital spaceflight, and Branson was the first founder of a spaceflight company to fly to space on his own company's craft, using the USAF/NASA definition of space as above 50 miles.
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Branson edges out fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder, who plans a similar feat July 20 with his company Blue Origin. Richard Branson reaches edge of space in historic flight Skip to ...
Virgin Galactic owner Richard Branson rocketed into space Sunday, an edge-of-the-seat sub-orbital test flight intended to demonstrate his company's air-launched spaceplane is ready for passengers ...
Richard Branson has won the foot race among billionaires to blast off into space. Branson, 70, and a crew of three others briefly achieved weightlessness on Sunday after his Virgin Galactic Unity ...