By: Alyssa Wilson Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Galactic, became the first billionaire to enter space on a spacecraft owned by a company he helped fund, beating competitor Jeff Bezos of Amazon. RELATED: SpaceX Crew Move Dragon to New Dock, Making Way for Other Space Shuttle On Sunday, he entered space in a test flight on VSS Unity in a move meant to demonstrate how the Virgin Galactic's spaceplane is ready to accept passengers, CBS News reported. The aircraft reached an altitude above 50 miles, and Brandson and his crew viewed the Earth from space for a few minutes before descending back to their launch site in […]
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