“Now looking down at the spaceport, congratulations to everybody for creating such a beautiful plane and all the hard work for getting us this far.”īezos heads to space on July 20, which marks the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It has been 12 months to the day since Sir Richard Branson briefly departed this world, only to make a feathery return back to Earth, landing on a hot, dusty runway in rural New Mexico. “It was the complete experience of a lifetime,” he said of his trek toward the stars. Virgin Galactic’s passenger rocket plane VSS Unity, carrying Richard Branson and crew, begins its ascent. He was released at an altitude of 53 miles, enjoying several minutes of weightlessness on his VSS Unity rocketplane, before making a safe return to Earth. At 9:25 am MT, about 45 minutes after taking off from the spaceport at the delayed time, the spaceship component of the duo, Unity, was ready to be freed from Eve. - Swashbuckling billionaire Richard Branson hurtled into space aboard his own winged rocket ship Sunday, bringing astro-tourism a step closer to reality and beating out his exceedingly richer rival Jeff Bezos. The spacecraft reached an altitude of 86.1 kilometers (53.5 miles, or about 282,000 feet). Three test tubes from the University of Florida accompanied British billionaire Richard Branson aboard Virgin Galactic’s Unity spaceship Sunday. Others include the 2003 Siegfried and Roy tiger attack, Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox and the presidency of Donald Trump.īranson rocketed into sub-orbital space nine days prior to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin. 11 July 2021 Watch Sir Richard Branson's flight to the edge of space (and back) Billionaire Sir Richard Branson has successfully reached the edge of space on board his Virgin Galactic rocket plane. 6 Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. 3 4 5 In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.
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The billionaire’s expedition is the latest in a series of real-world happenings predicted by The Simpsons, during its 30-plus years on the air. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) 2 is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate.
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