# @reuters on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cvx7KbcNItZ
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8214524-reuters-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-08-10T22:02:14.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Reuters (@Reuters) — https://gondola.cc/Reuters

## Caption

🚀 Virgin Galactic blasted three tourists to the edge of space aboard its air-launched VSS Unity spaceplane, the Richard Branson-founded company’s second commercial mission as it starts routine flights.
 
The rocket-powered VSS Unity craft dropped from the carrier plane over New Mexico around 9:20 a.m. local time and blasted its four passengers, a company instructor and three tourists, to an altitude of roughly 55 miles.
 
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#Reuters #video #videonews #reels #VirginGalactic #RichardBranson #VSSUnity #spaceplane  #spaceexploration #spacetourism

## Stats

- **Views:** 29,814
- **Likes:** 6,153
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- **Comments:** 148

## Tags

richardbranson, reuters, spaceplane, spaceexploration, virgingalactic, reels, vssunity, videonews, video, spacetourism

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