Virgin Galactic launched founder Richard Branson along with three other crew members on the company's fourth spaceflight test to date. Congratula

Virgin Galactic live updates: Branson and crew reach space, return in runway landing

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2021-07-11 16:00:06

Virgin Galactic launched founder Richard Branson along with three other crew members on the company's fourth spaceflight test to date.

Congratulatory posts to Virgin Galactic came in across social media after the flight landed, from NASA officials to astronauts.

The spacecraft returned in a glide to land on the runway in New Mexico, completing the company's fourth spaceflight to date.

Release! VSS Unity separates from the carrier aircraft and then ignites its engine, firing the spacecraft into a climb. The spacecraft will need to reach more than three times the speed of sound to make it to space.

CNBC's Morgan Brennan on the ground at Spaceport America in New Mexico posts that there are now less than 10 minutes to go until launch.

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, shared a fact about the number of people in space if the Unity22 mission is successful. There are 10 people in space before Virgin Galactic launches, on board the International Space Station and the Chinese space station.

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