SpaceShipTwo looking back on Spaceship Earth 🌎 pic.twitter.com/ynr31mKzzf —@virgingalacticThursday's flight takes Virgin Galactic a big step closer to turning the dream of commercial space tourism into reality. Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has said he wants to be one of the first on board. Richard Branson celebrates the successful test flight with pilots Rick 'CJ' Sturckow, left, and Mark 'Forger' Stucky, right. Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship sits on the runway after landing on a runway just minutes after reaching the edge of space. New versions of SpaceShipTwo are built by a Virgin Galactic sister company and flight testing taken in-house.

Source: CBC News December 13, 2018 14:49 UTC