Monday night, Sir Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire behind the Virgin empire, unveiled his long awaited sub-orbital spacecraft, the SpaceShipTwo. If you haven't been following the long lead up to this event, which was attended by a bunch of other extremely wealthy people, astronauts and the Governator, let us fill you in.
In 2004, Branson launched Virgin Galactic, a company that would provide sub-orbital spaceflights to anyone that could afford to pay. SpaceShipTwo is their second attempt at building a machine that could achieve his vision. If his vision does come to fruition it would be good news for rich people everywhere as a long list of regular joes have been longing to visit space. Before this becomes a normal occurrence, take a look back at all the people who have journeyed to the final frontier, and a few who tried.
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