From describing space as 'difficult' to actually visiting it, here is a brief history of Richard Branson's bumpy space journey.
Three years later, and the Virgin founder and billionaire entrepreneurKármán line, as his counterpart Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin is quick to point out., starting with the founding of Virgin Galactic by Richard Branson in 2004, four years after Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin in 2000, and two years after "The Moon landing was a catalystic moment for me," Richard Branson stated in a video released by Virgin Galactic.
Finally, Branson set out to launch a space tourism company himself. He founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, with the intention of using a variation of SpaceShipOne, abuilt by a company called Scaled Composites, for private leisure spaceflight. Things got off to a good start on June 21, 2004, with Scaled Composites pilot Mike Melvill flying the SpaceShipOne on the first private suborbital space flight in history, reaching an altitude of just over 100 km . Virgin Galactic was officially launched only a few months later on September 27, 2004.
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