Virgin Galactic rocket plane blasts skyward

Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic rocket level is backmost successful enactment aft a spread of astir 2 years.

The Unity vehicle, with 2 pilots and 4 passengers aboard, climbed precocious implicit the New Mexico godforsaken to the borderline of abstraction - earlier gliding backmost down.

It was billed arsenic the plane's last trial outing earlier entering commercialized work successful June.

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Video courtesy of Virgin Galactic