Virgin Galactic, a spaceship owned by Richard Branson, has made its first commercial flight into space and charged passengers between $200,000 and $450,000 each.
The first journey into space, a trip of 50 miles from the Earth, was conducted on Thursday after Virgin Galactic twin-fuselage “mothership” aircraft left the Spaceport America, New Mexico, at 8:30 am local time and returned by 4:45 p.m.
The mothership, after gaining high altitude, had released VSS Unity, a rocket-powered plane that conveyed six crew members on a 90-minute flight out of Earth.
