Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Virgin Galactic's first fully crewed flight to the edge of space is underway with the twin-fuselage jet which will deliver the VSS Unity rocket plane to launch point taking to the skies.Billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson's mission took off from a spaceport in New Mexico, US at 3.30pm on Sunday (July 11).Launch preparations for the pioneering flight had been pushed back by around 90 minutes due to weather overnight.Richard Branson, dubbed astronaut 001 for the flight, was onboard with five other specially selected Virgin Galactic Holding Inc employees for the mission.Touting the mission as a precursor to a 'new era of space tourism', the.
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