Business Magnate Richard Branson Becomes First Billionaire To Fly Into Space
On 11 July 2021 (Sunday), British billionaire, philanthropist and business tycoon, Richard Branson became the first billionaire to fly into space, after making a historic space flight aboard the Virgin Galactic spacecraft ‘VSS Unity’ from New Mexico in the US. Branson beat fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos by just 09 days, who is set to travel to space on 20 July 2021. According to this flight plan, the VSS Unity space plane was towed by a carrier aircraft to an altitude of 45,000 feet or 13,700 meters from where it separated. The 1.5-hour flight also allowed passengers to experience a few



