Monday Sunrise Briefing: The era of space tourism lifts off

British billionaire Richard Branson and five crewmates from his Virgin Galactic space-tourism company reached the edge of space Sunday - enough to experience about four minutes of weightlessness - and then glided back home to a runway landing. “The whole thing, it was just magical," a jubilant Mr. Branson said on his return. The brief flight was an unabashedly commercial plug for the company which plans to make space travel commonplace, and has a waiting list of more than 600 paying customers. Mr. Branson became the first person to blast off in his own spaceship, beating Amazon’s