Watch British billionaire Richard Branson climb into his Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane and soar more than 80km above the New Mexico desert in the vehicle’s first fully crewed test flight to the edge of space.
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In the next 10 days, two of the Earth’s wealthiest individuals will attempt to fly into space, starting with Richard Branson this Sunday and Jeff Bezos on 20 July. This rivalry remains pretty unique. And it’s not without risk.
Three billionaire entrepreneurs, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, are competing to usher in a new era of commercial space tourism.
As Richard Branson prepares to join five others on a test flight to the edge of space this Sunday, he said his wife may be nervous about the launch but he himself wasn’t the least bit afraid.
Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos will be joined by Wally Funk, one of the 13 women who passed Nasa’s astronaut training programme in the 1960s, on Blue Origin’s first crewed flight into space.
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson will travel to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic’s test flight on 11 July, Branson’s space tourism firm said on Thursday, beating fellow aspiring billionaire astronaut Jeff Bezos.
A seat on a spaceship ride with billionaire Jeff Bezos went for R385-million during a live auction on Saturday, concluding the month-long bidding process.
Jeff Bezos will go to space next month when his company, Blue Origin, launches its first passenger-carrying mission.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are busy advancing their own, better-funded rocket endeavours. This is the competitive pressure facing Virgin Galactic. No wonder it’s wilting.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space launch company, Blue Origin, has announced it will sell its first flights into microgravity to the highest bidder.