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Richard Branson's space tourism startup, Virgin Galactic, is moving to New Mexico ahead of its first commercial flight. After two successful test missions of its rocket-powered space plane over the past few months, the company announced on Friday 10, May, 2019, that it will move its spacecraft and 100 of its workers to a building called Spaceport America in the state this summer. They will join about 50 other employees already working there. It will take a few months to settle in, and Galactic will conduct "the final two or three tests" with only test pilots and crew members on board, Branson told CNN Business' Rachel Crane.

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/10/tech/richard-branson-virgin-galactic-space-tourism-spaceport-america/index.html