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Virgin Galactic has just made its first actual trip to space, the firm says. SpaceShipTwo, the craft that the company says will eventually take tourists and science projects into space, has had a successful test flight taking it to the highest altitude it’s ever reached.
SpaceShipTwo is a rocket plane that is shuttled high into the atmosphere by a larger aircraft called WhiteKnightTwo before it is released. In this flight, the spacecraft was carried to an altitude of about 13,100 metres before firing its own …