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Atlanta, United States of America (CNN) – The Virgin Galactic VSS Unity space plane landed safely on Sunday, after a historic hour-long space flight, carrying billionaire founder Richard Branson, who arrived in space before a similar flight to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is slated for July 20.
Branson’s flight into space took off around 2:40 p.m. GMT from Spaceship America in New Mexico, heading into space 50 miles from Earth, before returning and landing at the same base within an hour.
It took more than two decades to arrive at the day of short flight. Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 with the aim of creating a winged spacecraft capable of accommodating up to eight people, including two pilots and six passengers.
The VSS Unity spacecraft, as the spacecraft is known, has performed more than 20 test flights, 3 of which reached the edge of space and made 5 Virgin Galactic employees astronauts. Today, however, Branson’s journey makes him the first billionaire founder of a space company to travel aboard a spacecraft he helped finance.
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