MOJAVE — Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has made its third rocket-powered supersonic flight in the Mojave Desert, soaring to a record 71,000 feet.

The company says the reusable space vehicle was carried by airplane to 46,000 feet Friday and then released. The craft used its rocket motor the rest of the way to reach its highest altitude to date.

SpaceShipTwo and its two-member crew then glided to a safe landing in the desert north of Los Angeles.

Virgin Galactic says the 10-minute test flight moves the company closer to its goal of flying paying passengers into space.

No date has been set for the first commercial flight but hundreds of would-be tourists have made down-payments for the chance to fly.Investment in the crypto space has gone ballistic. When it was just a few million dollars

here and there, it was just a niche experiment. Now that there are billions in investments

going in, and market capitalizations of coins are measured in hundreds of millions and

even billions of the top players, regulators are being forced to take a closer look.

The amount of money raised by ICO cumulatively is nearing $4 Billion since 2014.

But we can see that the vast majority of it has been this past year. With crypto assets on the

verge of going mainstream and nearly every industry exploring blockchain technology, the

current ICO regime has attracted billions this year alone, and with that comes regulatory

scrutiny.

Along with that increase in attention from regulators worldwide, development teams looking to raise capital