After nearly two decades of developing Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard Branson has finally achieved his dream of going to space!
The billionaire CEO was on board his company’s spacecraft VSS Unity on July 11, when it was launched above the skies of New Mexico.
He was joined by pilots Dave Mackay and Michael Masucci along with three Virgin employees: chief astronaut trainer Beth Moses, lead operations engineer Colin Bennett, and VP of government affairs Sirisha Bandla.
The voyage makes him the first of the billionaire space company bosses to venture out in his own spacecraft, beating the likes of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. “It’s a beautiful day to go to space,” the entrepreneur turned adventurer tweeted the morning of the historic flight.
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