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Richard Branson becomes first billionaire in space with successful Virgin Galactic test flight

William Ukpe by William Ukpe
July 11, 2021
in Business News, Diaspora, Spotlight
Richard Branson becomes first billionaire in space with successful Virgin Galactic test flight
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Billionaire businessman, Richard Branson becomes the first billionaire to reach space with the successful test flight of VSS Unity by Virgin Galactic alongside five other crew members.

This successful flight which happened on Sunday, as reported by Bloomberg, paves the way for commercial space adventure, something that Branson has dreamed of since 2004.

Virgin Galactic’s commercial flights to space for wealthy passengers are billed to commence in 2022, with seats on the spacecraft likely to sell for more than $250,000 per passenger. So far, the company has a backlog of 600 confirmed passengers interested in an adventure to space.

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The Bloomberg report noted that today’s test flight was the spacecraft’s 22nd test flight and first with a large crew. It is also the first of two tests that the company has scheduled for this summer before an astronaut-training mission with Italian Air Force personnel later in the year.

In a tweet post, Richard Branson, the billionaire businessman and aviation aficionado said:

“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.

Welcome to the dawn of a new space age.”

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Bloomberg reported that the VSS Unity spacecraft “glided back through sunny skies to land in New Mexico at about 9:38 a.m. local time, shortly after detaching from a carrier aircraft and rocketing to an altitude of about 282,000 feet, or more than 53 miles (86 kilometers) above the Earth.”

The names of the other crew members who took part in the successful test flight are Dave Mackay, Michael Masucci, Sirisha Bandla, Colin Bennett and Beth Moses, all key members of Virgin Galactic’s space team and part of the test flight to observe various technical parameters in-flight.

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Last month, America’s Federal Aviation Administration cleared Virgin Galactic to fly customers into space, boosting shares of the company. On Friday, the company had a market value of $11.8 billion and announced it will resume ticket sales after the summer’s test flights.

Billionaires Elon Musk of SpaceX and Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin are also in the race to offer space tourism options to rich clients. Virgin Galactic’s space trip has come nine days before Amazon.com Inc. founder, Jeff Bezos, plans to fly to space on a rocket made by Blue Origin, his space venture.

 


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  1. Izibeya Sorgwe says:
    July 11, 2021 at 10:12 pm

    Good one, exploring outer space. To look at the Earth and Sun, from the moon. It’ll boost the study of Scienc in our schools.

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