Virgin Galactic launches its first space tourist flight | full video

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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic launched its first space tourist flight Thursday, with its VSS Unity rocketplane carrying an 80-year-old former British Olympian and a mother and daughter from Antigua and Barbuda. The flight was Virgin’s second commercial mission, following a June 29 flight chartered by the Italian government, but it’s the company’s first with “private astronauts.”

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