Author: Joey Roulette
The SpaceShipTwo Rocket carrying Branson heads to space
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and a crew of Virgin Galactic employees launched to space aboard the company’s spaceplane after dropping mid-air from a carrier aircraft. The mission, dubbed Unity 22, is the fourth test flight to space for the spaceplane and the first for Branson, the 70-year-old daredevil entrepreneur who’s been waiting over a decade for his debut trek to space.
The SpaceShipTwo plane, dubbed VSS Unity took off at 10:40AM ET attached to the belly of Virgin Galactic’s twin-fuselage WhiteKnight plane. Unity dropped from the center of the carrier craft at an altitude of around 45,000 feet roughly 50 minutes after takeoff. Moments later VSS Unity ignited its single rocket engine to blast to the edge of space, some 55...
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The SpaceShipTwo Rocket carrying Branson heads to space
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and a crew of Virgin Galactic employees launched to space aboard the company’s spaceplane after dropping mid-air from a carrier aircraft. The mission, dubbed Unity 22, is the fourth test flight to space for the spaceplane and the first for Branson, the 70-year-old daredevil entrepreneur who’s been waiting over a decade for his debut trek to space.
The SpaceShipTwo plane, dubbed VSS Unity took off at 10:40AM ET attached to the belly of Virgin Galactic’s twin-fuselage WhiteKnight plane. Unity dropped from the center of the carrier craft at an altitude of around 45,000 feet roughly 50 minutes after takeoff. Moments later VSS Unity ignited its single rocket engine to blast to the edge of space, some 55...
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