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Richard Branson and his crew have blasted into space on board 'VSS Unity' after seeing several delays because of a tropical storm. They returned after successfully completing the hour-long journey.

  

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British billionaire Richard Branson and his crew members finally took off on Sunday evening from New Mexico, US (United States) on board a Virgin Galactic spacecraft called 'VSS Unity'.

The Virgin aircraft touched down after Branson experienced his dream of space flight.The space journey was about one hour long.

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This was only the fourth trip to space for Virgin Galactic and two more similar trips are planned by Branson's firm. The main objective of this mission is to fully commercialise space trips for 'space enthusiasts'.

Before the launch, Virgin Galactic had announced, "Our first fully crewed rocket-powered test flight is planned to happened on July 11th with two pilots and 4 mission specialists including Richard Branson onboard."

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Interestingly, Richard Branson became the 1st billionaire to fly into space, beating fellow billionaire and e-commerce giant Amazon founder Jeff Bezos within the new space race by nine days.

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Aeronautical engineer Sirisha Bandla on Sunday became the third Indian-origin woman to fly into space when she joined British billionaire Richard Branson on Virgin Galactic's first fully crewed suborbital test flight from New Mexico (United States)

Ms Bandla joined Branson and five others on board Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity to form a journey to the sting of space from New Mexico (United States).

History of VSS 

Virgin Galactic's founder, Richard Branson, had originally hoped to work out a maiden flight by the top of 2009,but the date was delayed for several years, most seriously by the October 2014 crash of VSS Enterprise. As of 2020, the primary passenger flight was planned for no prior to May 2021.Richard Branson and three other employees have ridden on a flight as passengers on July 11th, 2021 but paying customer flights have yet to start. The company did the first work on the satellite launch development of LauncherOne before this was hived off to a separate company Virgin Orbit in 2017. the corporate also has aspirations for suborbital transport and in 2017, Branson has said that Virgin Galactic was "in the simplest position within the world" to produce rocket-powered, point-to-point 3,000 mph (4,800 km/ h) travel.

On 13 December 2018, "VSS Unity" achieved the project's 1st sub-orbital space flight, VSS Unity VP-03, with 2 mission pilots, reaching a height of 82.7 km (kilometres) (51.4 mi), and officially entering space by US standards. In Feb 2019, the project carried 3 people, including a passenger, on VSS Unity VF-01, with a member of the team floating within the cabin during a spaceflight that reached 89.9 kilometres(km)(55.9 mi).