Virgin Galactic's first fully-crewed rocket successfully reached the edge of space with the company's founder, Richard Branson, onboard. This officially makes him the first space billionaire to travel to space.
As the first billionaire to reach the edge of space, Virgin Galactic's founder, Richard Branson, had an emotional message for all who dreamt of the same experience. "To all you kids out there, I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. Now I'm an adult in a spaceship, with lots of other wonderful adults looking down to our beautiful, beautiful earth," he says with a grin.
Apart from Branson, aboard the spacecraft were Beth Moses, chief astronaut instructor at Virgin Galactic; Colin Bennett, lead operations engineer at Virgin Galactic; Sirisha Bandla, vice president of government affairs and research operations at Virgin Galactic; and pilots Dave Mackay and Michael Masucci.
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