Tag: Richard Branson

(CNN) — Richard Branson boldly went where no space baron has gone before on Sunday, when he stepped onto the supersonic space plane from his rocket venture, Virgin Galactic. Branson’s brief joy ride was more than two decades in the making. He founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 with the goal of creating a winged spacecraft capable of taking up to eight people, including two pilots and six passengers, on rocket-powered flights that reach more than 50 miles above Earth, which the US government considers the boundary marking outer space. Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity, as the spaceplane...