How to Watch Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Space Launch
travel to space aboard a craft that he helped fund. And you can watch it all in real-time.Branson will be joining the six-person crew manning Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity Spaceship Two as a Mission Specialist in the hope of demonstrating the viability of the company’s plans for commercial space travel. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch Sunday, July 11 from Virgin Galactic’s 27-square-mile Spaceport America facility near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, at 6 a.m.