As the race to commercialise space travel tightens, Virgin Galactic takes the lead as Richard Branson flies in his Unity 22 flight to the edge of space today. Watch Richard Branson, Sirisha Bandla’s Virgin Galactic flight here: The WhiteKnight aircraft, VMS Eve, will carry a rocket-powered spaceship VSS Unity. The agenda of the suborbital flight is to promote space tourism, …
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is flying into space on board the first fully crewed flight of his SpaceShipTwo aircraft, Unity 22, on Sunday along with three crew mates and two pilots. The 33-year-old, born in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, is the second Indian-born woman in space and the fourth Indian to ever achieve the feat after Rakesh …
A twin-fuselage jet took off on Sunday carrying a Virgin Galactic rocket plane primed to soar more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert with British billionaire Richard Branson aboard in the vehicle's first fully crewed test flight to space. Virgin Galactic's passenger plane parked before Richard Branson departs with his crew for travel to the edge of space. …
