Welcome to the new space age: Richard Branson

New Mexico, dt

British businessman Richard Branson and his team made history on Sunday by flying into space from the operational base of the Virgin Galactic in New Mexico. Indian-born Shirisha Bandla is also involved in the 40-year-old Branson's historic journey. Shirisha is the second Indian-born woman to go into space after Kalpana Chawla. Richard Branson and his team successfully landed on Earth in a space flight of about an hour and a half on the Virgin Galactic Unity 3 space flight.

Amazon's founder and world number one Jeff Bezos, Virgin Atlantic's Richard Branson and SpaceX's Alan Musk competed in space. After Jeff Bezos announced the launch of his New Shepherd ship on July 20, Richard Branson suddenly announced the launch on July 11 with two pilots and four passengers. Going into space in his own spaceship nine days earlier than Jeff Bezos, Branson became the first businessman to go into space on a private flight.

According to Virgin Atlantic, the Virgin Galactic Unity 3 space flight was scheduled to depart from New Mexico at 6.30 pm local time on Sunday. But due to the weather, it was launched at 9.00 am. The flight was also broadcast live on the company's YouTube and Facebook channels.

This was the fourth flight to space for the Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic's VASS Unity space plane with mothership about 15 km. Reached the sky above. VSS Unity did not have enough speed to get out of Earth's gravity, so it was taken into space in Mothershipship. From there, Unity 3 traveled farther into space at three times the speed of sound, at a speed of 2,500 miles per hour. At the end of the space trip, six tourists, including Branson and Indian-origin Shilisha Bandla, enjoyed the experience of zero gravity. Thus, Unity 3 reached a total height of 3 km from the earth.

From here, the supersonic space plane Unity 3 made a successful landing at the US spaceport. Enthusiastic Richard Branson embraced the family after getting off the plane to celebrate this historic moment. “This trip is a lifelong memory,” Branson said. Today's journey is the result of 12 years of hard work. Welcome to your space age. With this journey came the advent of space travel. We will work to make space travel more accessible to all people. We want to make a new generation of dreamers the astronauts of today and tomorrow. Everyone standing on this stage today has enjoyed an indescribable experience.