Virgin Galactic makes manned test flight to edge of space
Billionaire Richard Branson-led aerospace company Virgin Galactic on Thursday successfully test-launched its commercial spaceplane SpaceShipTwo into suborbital space. The plane, with two pilots and four NASA-backed experiments, reached over 80 kilometres in altitude. However, the plane did not cross the KÃ¡rmÃ¡n line which is commonly agreed upon as the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space.