Virgin Galactic made first commercial ‘space flight’ successful and it is a great news for the people who are fond of space travelling.
A rocket-powered plane named VSS Unity has successfully taken three customers and three crew to the edge of space in a first commercial flight.
Virgin Galactic has made it possible after a British billionaire Richard Branson founded the venture in 2004.
The first commercial flight successfully reached at an altitude of 279,000 feet that is approx. 85 kilometers or 53 miles.
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This space plane has couple of vessels that takes off to a support the plane and they are named Eve, then separates in mid-air.
Later on, it fires its rocket and then starts climbing almost vertically towards the edge of space.
At the peak of the flight, the crew then experienced a few minutes of weightlessness.
However, once the the Unity moved into re-entry mode and began its flight back towards Earth, the feeling of weightlessness was no more.
The entire span of flight was around 75 minutes. The plan Unity landed back safely at Spaceport America in New Mexico.
This successful flight will open new horizons of entertainment especially for the space lovers who are fond of travelling to space.
In the future, the Virgin Galactic has its plans to improve the flight experience by increasing the time duration.
This successful flight has opened gates for the space tourism, and the Virgin Galactic Holding Inc is pioneer of such tourism.
Overall, it was the sixth time, the company has made sub-orbital space flight, However, it is the first ever time that it has carried the paying customers.
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Virgin Galactic made first commercial ‘space flight’ successful and the company has already sold around 800 tickets for the space trips and each tickets costs around $450,000 a seat.
The company has also disclosed its plans to eventually build a larger fleet that can accommodate around 400 flights annually.
Besides Virgin, there are other companies that are operating in space tourism such as Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
