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Richard Branson - Richard Branson took a flight with Beth Moses, Sirisha Bandla, and Colin Bennett and reached the edge of space

Time: Sunday Jul 11, 2021

Place: Edge of Space

Details: On 11 July 2021, Richard Branson took a flight with Beth Moses, Sirisha Bandla, and Colin Bennett and reached the edge of space (86 kilometers or 53 miles) on a Virgin Galactic spacecraft called VSS Unity. This made him the first billionaire founder of a space company to travel to the edge of space.

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