Virgin Galactic goes lives

Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic have won the race in first to tourist space

Watch Richard Branson fly to space (Virgin Galactic Unity22 supercut)
Richard Branson has beat his billionaire rivals into space, successfully launching and landing on Virgin Galactic’s Unity 22 mission — watch the historic flight here. Subscribe to CNET: https://www.youtube.com/user/CNETTV Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cnet Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/cnet Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/2icCYYm Follow us on TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMd2h6yac/

The big picture: Virgin Galactic is in direct competition with Bezos’ Blue Origin for a piece of the suborbital space tourism market.

Bezos is expected to fly on his company’s system for its first human flight on July 20.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX, on the other hand, isn’t interested in suborbital space tourism.
Instead, his company has created a more powerful system that sends astronauts to the International Space Station, with plans to launch a fully-civilian crew in September.

Richard Branson’s launch changes the way we look at space
SpaceShip Two’s launch of a privately financed human spaceflight was the first of its kind. Get ready for the Virgin Galactic jingle.