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    Seventeen years after Sir Richard Branson watched SpaceShipOne win the Ansari X-Prize, the English entrepreneur and billionaire has flown aboard a successor vehicle known as SpaceShipTwo as part of a crew of six people, the others being Virgin Galactic employees, in a suborbital flight to space.

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