Richard Branson Successfully Completes His First Virgin Galactic Space Flight

Successfully Completes His First Virgin Galactic Space Flight
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Swashbuckling entrepreneur Richard Branson did the boldest adventure on Sunday by getting hurtled into space abroad his own rocked ship. He left behind his fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos. The 71-year-old Branson with his five crewmates from his Virgin Galactic space-tourism reached at an altitude of about 53 miles which is 83 Kms over the New Mexico desert and experience enough time of about 2-3 minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of the Earth and then safely glided to a runway landing.

The whole things was just so magical’, said the jubilant Branson after he completed his trip home, named unity.

Richard Branson and his crew felt the weightlessness about 15 minutes or about as long as Alan Shepard’s first U.S. spaceflight in 1961 was intended. From the next year, this plan was to start and taking customers to the joyrides.

Branson became the first person to experience this serenity in his own rocket ship, leaving behind, Bezos by nine days. He also became the second septuagenarian to go into space. Ms. Bandla became the third-origin woman to fly into space became the third after Sunita Willams, Kalpana Chawla had gone and made history. Rakesh Sharma who is the Wing Commander is the only Indian citizen to travel in space.

Mr. Branson’s wife, children and grandchildren, and about 500 people watching the aircraft with his space plane took off in the first stage of the flight.

Then, the space ship was segregated from the main ship at an altitude of around 13 Kms to reach at the edge of the space. The entire process took around 15 minutes.

The founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways had no plan to fly until later this summer. But, after Mr. Bezos announced his plans to ride his own rocket into space from Texas on July, 20, Branson decided to execute this, later he denied that he was trying to beat Mr. Bezos.

Space Tourism Race

Another rival of Mr. Branson in the space tourism race, SpaceX’s Elon Musk arrived in New Mexico just to witness the flight and to wish Mr. Branson via Twitter, he wrote, ‘Godspeed’. Even Bezos swished him for a safe and successful flight.

Bezos’ – Blue Origin Company also tend to send tourists past the so-called Karman line 100 Kms above the earth. But NASA, the Airforce, the Federal Aviation Administration and some astrophysicists is said that the atmosphere and space to begin 80 Kms up. 

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