'Experience of a lifetime': Richard Branson after a historic flight to space

Updated : Jul 11, 2021 23:40
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Richard Branson is back on Earth after a historic 15-minute space flight with 5 crew members. 

Branson and fellow space travellers from his Virgin Galactic space tourism company reached an altitude of about 53 miles over the New Mexico desert — enough to experience three to four minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of the Earth — and then safely glided back home to a runway landing.

The British billionaire said he said done many ridiculous things in his life but the trip to space was an experience of a lifetime. 

Earlier, a massive carrier plane took off and ascended to 50,000 feet before dropping space plane VSS Unity to complete the rest of the flight using its rocket-powered engine. While the flight landed back an hour after the take off, the space plane's journey was only about 15 minutes. 

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