Sitting back and hoping that things go well is probably not a reasonable strategy, safety experts have warned following the space adventures of billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos.
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Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, on Tuesday is set to blast off aboard his company Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle for a suborbital flight as part of a history-making crew. Watch the launch live-stream video here.
Billionaire US businessman Jeff Bezos and his three crewmates were engaged in a crash course of training on Sunday in preparation for his company Blue Origin’s inaugural flight to the edge of space planned for Tuesday.
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.
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.
Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, has a net worth of more than $100-billion, making him the ninth person in the world to reach that lofty plateau.
Jeff Bezos is leaving the rest of the world behind when it comes to wealth accumulation, reaching a record $211-billion net worth on Tuesday after Amazon.com shares rose 4.7%.
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.