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Former astronaut Chris Hadfield bestows space wings on Sir Richard Branson after the successful flight to the edge of space. Screenshot from the Virgin Galactic YouTube channel.

Richard Branson beat Jeff Bezos in the space race * took off with 5 others to give way

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The spaceship or rather the Spaceship 2 rocket plane took off for the mission known as Unity 22 from the Virgin Galactic Space Center in New Mexico on a carrier plane and when they reached the desired altitude they activated the rocket engines and rose to a height of about ninety kilometers where the passengers saw the curvature of the Earth and floated in low gravity

Virgin Galactic has received a license from the Federal Aviation Administration to test its spacecraft

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The new model of Spaceship 2 spacecraft, "Unity". Source: Virgin Galactic.

More than a year after the crash of the spaceship 2, Virgin Galactic unveiled the new model of the spacecraft, which will take tourists to the edge of space

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Richard Branson is practicing flying Spaceship-2. From the Virgin Galactic website

"The damage to the space tourism industry will only be in the short term, it is clear to everyone that there is a risk in technological developments"

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Landing test, SPACESHIPTWO, October 2010. Photo: PR, Virgin Galactic

NBC will broadcast Virgin Galactic's maiden flight live, with Richard Branson and his family in attendance

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Separation of a booster as photographed during the test of Virgin Galactic's Spaceship 2 spacecraft on September 5, 2013. From a video by Virgin Galactic

This is what the Earth looks like from a camera on the tail of the private spaceship SpaceShipTwo (video)

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Visualization of the Spaceship 2 private spacecraft flight. Image: Virgin Galactic

"The private space business is on the fast track to take off," says Virgin Galactic President George Whitesides

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Virgin Galactic is planning a space wedding and honeymoon

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