Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity Spaceplane Successfully Completes First Free Flight

Virgin Galactic — the aerospace firm founded by the British billionaire Richard Branson — successfully carried out the first free flight test run of its latest SpaceShipTwo plane VSS Unity. The plane, which took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California Saturday morning, glided back to the runway ten minutes after separating from the WhiteKnightTwo carrier airplane.