Virgin Galactic Unity 22
07/11/2021 AD departed
A sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity with civilian passengers.
The crew consisted of pilots David Mackay and Michael Masucci as well as passengers Sirisha Bandla, Colin Bennett, Beth Moses, and Richard Branson.
On 7 June 2021, Jeff Bezos had announced that he planned to be on the first crewed flight of his company Blue Origin, which meant being aboard the first crewed flight to space (suborbital) of a private enterprise fully funded by private money with (2 possible different "record firsts" depending on whether one uses the international standard limit of space as 100 km altitude or the USA 50 mile altitude limit).
In the following days, rumors began to spread that Richard Branson was filing paperwork to make a similar suborbital flight as part of his own private enterprise, beating Bezos to claim the above mentioned first achievements. Also the one first achievement Mr. Branson stole from Mr. Bezos was to be the first founder of a spaceflight company to fly his own company's vehicle to space (50 miles).
&mash; Wikipedia - Virgin Galactic Unity 22
Lattitude: 33.14° N
Longitude: 107.19° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
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