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19 favourite things people said about Richard Branson going into near space

Just in case you missed it, Richard Branson was even more pleased with himself than usual this week when he blasted into ‘near space’.

The billionaire Virgin founder travelled 53 miles above the Earth in his Virgin Galactic rocket plane.

Here he is in action (mind you don’t get space sick).

And it prompted no end of comment as you might imagine. Here are our 13 favourites to send you into orbit.

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