Richard Branson said he expects to travel to space within "five, six months" – after his rocket company made its first successful trip to the "edge of space" yesterday.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity soared 50 miles above Earth on Thursday, ahead of the company's first commercial spaceflights for private passengers in 2019.
The flight, launched from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 3:15pm GMT, soared to an altitude of 271,000 feet above Earth's surface strapped to a carrier plane called WhiteKnightTwo.
It successfully separated from its mother ship around 45 minutes after liftoff and engaged its rocket thrusters, reaching speeds of Mach 2.9.
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