Virgin Galactic completes final test flight before launching paying customers to space

BERNABE M MONTANO, N.M. –

Virgin Galactic has accomplished a closing take a look at flight earlier than taking paying clients on transient journeys to house.

Six of the corporate’s workers landed Thursday morning at Spaceport America in southern New Mexico after a flight that included a couple of minutes of weightlessness.

The flight got here practically two years after founder Richard Branson beat fellow billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to house.

Flights have been grounded after that journey as federal aviation authorities investigated a mishap. The first business flight will probably be a science mission with the Italian Air Force.

Next will come paying ticket holders who’ve been ready years for his or her probability at weightlessness.