Hello world, Ken Baxter here with big news!
Today, history was made in the middle of the New Mexico desert when the visionary with a dreamto make space travel accessible for everyone, Sir Richard Branson, rode his rocket into the stratosphere. Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity achieved a speed of Mach 3 after being released from the mothership, VMS Eve. The vehicle reached space, at an altitude of 53.5 miles, before gliding smoothly to a runway landing at Spaceport America.
In an official release from Virgin Galactic – “Today’s flight was the 22nd test flight of VSS Unity and the first test flight with a full crew in the cabin, including the Company’s founder, Sir Richard Branson. The crew fulfilled a number of test objectives related to the cabin and customer experience, including evaluating the commercial customer cabin, the views of Earth from space, the conditions for conducting research and the effectiveness of the five-day pre-flight training program at Spaceport America.”