Ladies and gentlemen, please make sure your seat belt is securely fastened and your seat backs and tray tables are in their full upright position. Richard Branson will this week once again blast his Virgin rocket ship into space. Although not really, because at best his sub-orbital ship will only get to the edge of space, and only for a few moments, before gliding back to Earth.

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic problem

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