Richard Branson’s company Virgin Galactic conducted a supersonic test flight over the Sierra Nevada mountains of its SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship on Thursday, the company said, three years after a fatal accident on an earlier version of the ship.
At about 8 a.m. local time, the VMS Eve carrier plane took off from Mojave, Calif., carrying
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