Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic gets approval to fly...

byPOLITICS EXPERT VLOG Published:June 25, 2021

Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic gets approval to fly people to space_....

Billionaire Richard Branson's spaceship company Virgin Galactic can fly people to space after getting approval from the aviation safety regulator.

The approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) comes at a critical time for Branson as his space venture faces off against Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Branson, Bezos and Musk have been investing billions of dollars on their rocket startups.

Branson, who is reportedly flying to space himself in a bid to beat rival billionaire Bezos to the final frontier, received the green light just a month after a successful test flight.

Virgin Galactic last month completed its first manned space flight from its new home port in New Mexico in May, as its SpaceShipTwo craft with a capacity of six passengers glided to a landing on a runway safely with its two pilots.

"Today's approval by the FAA ... gives us confidence as we proceed toward our first fully crewed test flight this summer," Virgin Galactic Chief Executive Officer Michael Colglazier said in a statement.

Atmanirbhar Bharat Mission

Atmanirbhar bharat or Self - Reliant India Mission ' is the vision of the prime minister of india Narendra Modi of making india a self - reliant nation . This mission cameup in the form of the ' Atmanirbhar bharat abhiyan ' or self - reliant india mission ' during the announcement of the coronavirus pandemic related economic package on 12th May 2020.

This self - reliant policy does not aim that to be protectionist in nature and as the finance minister clarified , " self - reliant india does not mean cutting off from the rest of the world .
Ravi shankar prasad [ law and IT minister ]
said that self - reliance does not mean isolating away from the world.
Foreign direct investment is welcome , technology is welcome self - reliant india .

✔ Initiatives :-

Atmanirbhar bharat package is very numerous government decisions have taken place such as changing the definition of MSME
[Ministry of Micro , Small and Medium Enterprises is a brach of Government of India], boosting scope for private participation in numerous sector , increasing FDI
[Foreign direct investment] in the defence sector and the vision has found support in the many of the sector such as solar manufacture sector .

☑ Examples of Initiatives which helped Atmanirbhar Bharat :

The growth of india personal protective equipement [PPE] sector from zero before march to 1,50,000 pieces by the beginning of May .

The PPE industry in india has become a Rs.7000 crore in two months the second largest after china .

The largest fund in the country worth Rs.21,000 crore was setup by the IIT Alumni Council[Indian Institute of Technology Alumni Council ] with the aim of supporting the mission towards self - reliance ..
India's own 'Made in india ' 5G network
was also announced in july 2020 by Reliance Jio .
Mukesh Ambani
[Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an indian billonaire buisness magnate ad the chairman , manging director and largest shareholder of Reliance limited ]announced in mid term of july ' Jio ' has created a complete 5G solution from scratch , that will enable us to launch a world - class 5G service in india , and they were using 100 percent homegrown technologies and solutions .
In month of july 2020 , it was announced that Apple
would manufacture one of their premium iPhone models in India.
In month of August 2020 , the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced that the Defence Ministry is now readyfor a big push to 'Atmanirbhar Bharat Initiative' .