Richard Branson's company Virgin Galactic has made its fifth test flight to suborbital space. Thus, in June, full-fledged flights to space with tourists should begin.

Writes about it Daily Mail.

The flight into suborbital space at an altitude of almost 90 km (believed to be not quite space, starting at 100 km above Earth) was Virgin Galactic's first mission since July 2021.

On Thursday, May 25, two Virgin Galactic aircraft were launched from the America cosmodrome in New Mexico. These space planes were flown by two pilots of the company, and on board VSS Unity were 4 employees of the company. In total, 8 people took part in the mission.

The publication writes that the pilots and passengers of the space plane were in a state of weightlessness for 3 minutes and were able to see the blackness of space in the windows.

Proud to be at Spaceport America as @VirginGalactic flew back to space today: https://t.co/GgJMhkWmf9 #Unity25 pic.twitter.com/275MJHxDX6

— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) May 25, 2023

Full space flights from Virgin Galactic are expected by about 800 tourists who have bought their tickets for a long time. The first tickets were sold at a price of 200 thousand dollars, now they cost 450 thousand dollars.

Scientists have previously warned that as space tourism becomes more common, it is inevitable that some thrill-seekers will have sex in orbit, but conceiving a child in space can have unpredictable results.

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