The Branson Hype Machine went supernova earlier this week, with the unveiling of Virgin Galactic’s “first Spaceship III in its growing fleet, VSS Imagine.”

TechCrunch, CNN, The Associated Press, CNBC, Fox News, Bloomberg, CBS This Morning — the gushing was effusive, with little attention paid to Virgin Galactic’s monotonous, decade-and-a-half record of f…