Virgin Galactic successfully flies tourists to space for first time
by Maya Yang from World news | The Guardian on (#6DQMP)
Six individuals were aboard VSS Unity space plane, including first mother-daughter duo to venture to space together
Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity, the reusable rocket-powered space plane carrying the company's first crew of tourists to space, successfully launched and landed on Thursday.
The mission, known as Galactic 02, took off shortly after 11am ET from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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