7月11日消息，北京時間今晚22點30分左右，70歲的英國億萬富翁企業家，維珍集團創始人理查德·布蘭森首次乘坐太空旅遊公司維珍銀河的太空船“團結號”，率先飛往地球大氣層邊緣，並試飛成功。布蘭森成為首位登上太空的商業航天企業創始人，也是進入太空邊緣的私人航天第一人。
媒體報道：
21-07-11 鈦媒體: 億萬富翁布蘭森乘坐維珍銀河太空船起飛
21-07-11 品玩: 維珍銀河創始人Richard Branson成為進入太空邊緣的私人航天第一人
21-07-11 Digital Trends: Virgin Galactic’s First fully crewed Spaceflight delayed due to weather
21-07-11 Mashable: Billionaire Richard Branson heads to Space aboard Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo
21-07-11 Engadget: Virgin Galactic and Richard Branson complete First fully crewed Spaceflight
21-07-11 Business Insider: Virgin Galactic just flew billionaire founder Richard Branson and 3 crewmates to the edge of Space
21-07-11 Digital Trends: Richard Branson makes it to the edge of Space in Virgin Galactic flight
21-07-11 Wired: Richard Branson Reaches Space on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity
21-07-11 The Verge: Virgin Galactic has opened a sweepstakes offering a trip to Space
21-07-11 The New York Times: Branson Beats Jeff Bezos to Space, Aiming to Open Space Tourism
21-07-11 TechCrunch: Virgin Galactic and Richard Branson celebrate launch of First passengers into Space
21-07-11 Neowin: Elon Musk reserves a ticket on a Virgin Galactic Spaceflight
21-07-11 Business Insider: Elon Musk showed up in Richard Branson’s kitchen at 3 a.m. to Wish him luck flying to the edge of Space
21-07-11 Engadget: Virgin Galactic sweepstakes lets you Win tickets to Space
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