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.
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.
Elon Musk’s satellite network Starlink is on track to beam broadband Internet everywhere in the world except polar regions by August, he said on Tuesday.
Starlink, the satellite Internet unit of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, expects to be able to provide continuous global coverage by around September but will then need to seek regulatory approvals.
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.
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