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Virgin Galactic (NYSE:SPCE), Richard Branson’s spaceflight enterprise, is due for a healthy stock market rally this week as the company managed to fulfill the long-time ambition of its founder to head to space via a dedicated flight over the weekend. While Branson has won the billionaires’ war of optics, investors are now sure to tune in on the 20th of July when Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos is scheduled to fly into space atop the New Shepard rocket.

As a refresher, Virgin Galactic completed its fourth rocket-powered spaceflight and first fully crewed one yesterday. The occasion marked the 22nd flight for the VSS Unity and also carried the company’s founder, Richard Branson. After being released from the mothership VMS Eve, the spaceship VSS Unity achieved a rocket-propelled speed of Mach 3 yesterday, managing to reach an altitude of 53.5 miles before gliding back to Spaceport America.