Branson and his team – two pilots and three other “mission specialists” – will strap into the spacecraft, the VSS Unity. It will also be to deliver a marketing coup for his company, Virgin Galactic, and a bloody nose to his billionaire rivals. The cabin of VSS Unity, the Virgin Galactic spaceship that will carry Richard Branson and five others 50 miles above Earth if all goes to plan. Seven years later an explosion during a test flight over the Mojave desert killed the craft’s pilot. Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity is released from its mothership, VMS Eve, during a test flight in May.

Source: The Guardian July 10, 2021 06:00 UTC