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Originally Posted by ABC News 14 Dec 2018

Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship climbed more than 80 kilometres above California's Mojave Desert in a test flight, reaching for the first time what the company considers the boundary of space.

The rocket ship hit an altitude of 82 kilometres before beginning its gliding descent, mission official Enrico Palermo said. It landed on a runway minutes later.

"We made it to space!" Mr Palermo said.

The supersonic flight takes Virgin Galactic closer to turning the long-delayed dream of commercial space tourism into reality.

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