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From the Liveblog of
Sunday, July 11, 2021
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Virgin’s Richard Branson takes off on journey to space
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The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space plane Unity flies at Spaceport America, near Truth and Consequences, New Mexico, July 11, 2021, before traveling to the cosmos. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP)
Billionaire Richard Branson takes from a base in New Mexico aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel bound for the edge of space, a voyage he hopes will lift the nascent space tourism industry off the ground.
A massive carrier plane makes a horizontal takeoff from Space Port, New Mexico, at around 8:40 a.m. local time and will ascend for around an hour to an altitude of 50,000 feet (15 kilometers), before dropping the spaceplane beneath it.
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