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  1. Jul 11, 2021 · Billionaire Sir Richard Branson has successfully reached the edge of space on board his Virgin Galactic rocket plane. The UK entrepreneur flew high above New Mexico in the US in the vehicle that ...

  2. Jul 11, 2021 · Richard Branson touched the edge of space on Sunday morning, fulfilling a life-long ambition and grabbing bragging rights from rival Jeff Bezos in the race to open suborbital space to commercial ...

  3. Jul 11, 2021 · For more than 15 years, Virgin Galactic has been working to begin carrying paying passengers to the edge of space and back. Here, we track the long, winding road to realising Sir Richard Branson's ...

  4. Jul 11, 2021 · What Branson achieved today was in fact a very big thing. Space exploration has always been a different breed entirely from the other kinds of exploring human beings have done. We built boats that ...

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  5. Jul 11, 2021 · Sir Richard Branson has flown to the edge of space on his Virgin Galactic rocket plane. The company live-streamed the flight and Sir Richard reached nearly 90km (56 miles) above the Earth. Read ...

  6. Jul 11, 2021 · Richard Branson and a crew of three others grazed the edge of space on Sunday in a rocket built by the British billionaire's company, Virgin Galactic. The flight ushers in a new chapter in the ...

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  8. Jul 11, 2021 · The vehicles fly to 50,000 feet, where Unity is released and its engine ignites to rocket to the edge of space. Branson's flight took off Sunday morning at around 10:30 ET. The launch time was ...