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Ridgewood NJ, Virgin Galactic’s first tourists rocketed to the edge of space on Thursday. The tourists were a former British Olympian who bought his ticket 18 years ago and a mother-daughter duo from the Caribbean. Virgin Galactic can now start offering monthly rides. There are currently about 800 people on Virgin Galactic’s waiting list, with tickets costing $450,000.
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Spaceport America New Mexico, after nearly 17 years of development and over a billion of dollars invested in Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard Branson has achieved his dream and reached space.
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Ridgewood NJ, in the race to commercialize space travel Virgin Galactic will launch its next test flight on July 11. Founder Sir Richard Branson will be on board, beating Jeff Bezos to space by nine days. The test will be Virgin Galactic’s fourth test space flight. Its most recent test flight had two pilots on board. There will be three Virgin Galactic mission specialists alongside Branson. The flight will be live-streamed on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.
