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Richard Branson has finally launched to the edge of space aboard his Virgin Galactic space plane, a flight more than 15 years in the making. The billionaire has narrowly become the first person to fly on a spacecraft of their own making, beating Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos by a matter of days.

On 11 July, the VSS Unity launched from New Mexico, taking Branson, two pilots and three other passengers on a 90-minute suborbital flight to an altitude of 85 kilometres.

“To all you kids down there, I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars,” Branson said in a broadcast during the flight. “Now I’m an adult, in a spaceship with lots of other wonderful adults, looking down to our beautiful, beautiful Earth.”