As planned, the rockets burned for 16 seconds and propelled SpaceShipTwo to Mach 1.2, Virgin said in a statement.
Similar testing now lies ahead for the aircraft, which promises to take six paying passengers and two pilots on a suborbital space flight, complete with several minutes of weightlessness.
In February Bieber tweeted: “I wanna do a concert in space”, to which Nasa retweeted: “Maybe we can help you with that.”
But it seems the singer has decided to go with Sir Richard instead.
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