Richard Branson has recently reached « Space » in his Unity vehicle…

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ThIs [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57797297) article states that the passengers experienced weightlessness for 5 minutes – how is this possible? Is it at the descent? They are much too close to the earth to not experience a lack of gravity.

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Basically they experienced the same kind of weightlessness as those who go training in the NASA ‘vomit comet’ – accelerate upward, and as the craft reaches a peak, and is somewhere between climb and descent, they float around.

Branson just went higher and faster

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