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After being released from under the wing of its carrier plane at 46,500 feet, VSS Unity fired its rocket motor for 42 seconds to propel itself and its two pilots to a speed of Mach 2.47, or almost two-and-a-half times the speed of sound The craft reached an altitude of 170,800 feet (32.3 miles) — more than halfway to the line that marks the boundary between the upper atmosphere and outer space — before descending and landing safely at the Mojave Air and Space Port. “This was a new altitude record for both of us in the cockpit, not to mention our mannequin in the back, and the views of Earth from the black sky were magnificent,” Virgin Galactic's chief pilot Dave Mackay said. Along with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic plans to take space tourists up on brief suborbital flights. About 800 people already have booked a $250,000 seat on a Virgin Galactic flight, which will reach an altitude of approximately 68 miles (110 km) above the surface of the Earth, crossing the boundary known as the Kármán line, where the atmosphere ends and outer space begins. "Before the end of the year (2018) I hope to be sitting in a Virgin Galactic spaceship, going to space" says Richard Branson.

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