Inside Virgin Atlantic's rocket plane to space

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic rocket level has carried customers into space, successful its archetypal commercialized flight.

The 90-minute ngo was purchased for the Italian Air Force and the Italian National Research Council.

The unity conveyance climbed precocious implicit the New Mexico godforsaken to the borderline of space, earlier gliding backmost down to earth.

The ngo took disconnected from Spaceport America astatine astir 0830 section clip (1430 GMT) and was livestreamed astir the world.