If truth is to be unfolded, Virgin Galactic’s success at its first test space flight would likely to hand out Branson an upper-hand in a highly embraced rivalry about commercial space travel over SpaceX’s Elon Musk alongside billionaire Jeff Bezos, whose rocket company is expected to launch a test flight as early as this month with Bezos on-board.
On Sunday, Virgin Galactic, the Mojave, California-headquartered British-American spaceflight company, had completed its first ever spaceflight with humans on-board as founder billionaire Richard Branson had climbed over 50 miles above the New Mexico desert on a Virgin Galactic rocket plane alongside six company employees and safety returned into the earth, completing the first-ever fully crewed test flight in the space what analysts had contemplated as a breakthrough event that could converge into a new era of commercial space tourism.
Aside from that, following completion of the test flight, Branson, 70, whose Virgin group holds a 24 per cent stake in the Californian space tourism company, was quoted saying the mission had been an omen that underscored a substantial scale of potential in commercial space tourism adding, “We’re here to make space more accessible to all.
Welcome to the dawn of a new space age”. Virgin Galactic, founded back in the 2004s by the British billionaire business magnet Richard Branson, is expected to launch commercial space travels as early as next year.
Virgin Galactic completes first ever space flight with Branson on-board
If truth is to be unfolded, Virgin Galactic’s success at its first test flight would likely to hand out Branson an upper-hand in a highly embraced rivalry about commercial space travel over SpaceX’s Elon Musk alongside billionaire Jeff Bezos, whose rocket company is expected to launch a test flight as early as this month with Bezos on-board.
Originally published at Financial-world