It's December, almost the end of the year, and people have started their end-of-the-year parties already.
If you want to do something insane, try hopping a ride on Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic's maiden space flight later in the month. It will be record-breaking for all the right reasons.
Reuters
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In an interview with CNN on Nov 30, Virgin Galactic boss Sir Richard Branson was "pretty confident" that his company will be the first in the world to send astronauts (and later civilians) at the edge of space before the end of the year.
If successful, Branson's Virgin Galactic will beat Jeff Bezos' Blur Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX in launching a commercial space tourism flight with humans onboard.
The Verge
Sir Richard Branson said that the first few test flights will be flown by astronauts to make sure everything's 100-percent safe, and he will be the first tourist to fly aboard the maiden flight -- expected to be before the year's end.
SpaceShipTwo, named VSS Unity, will fly at a speed of 3,700 kmph, reaching a milestone height of 80 km above the earth's surface to reach suborbital space, giving passengers a truly out of the world experience.
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