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At least we don’t have to pay them any attention.ĭon’t say: “Actually the final frontier is a bit further on, mate.” Taking rich people to space for fun – this is exactly what the world needs. And he invited another rival billionaire would-be astronaut, Elon Musk, to his launch party. His company claims to have 600 customers lined up – at $250,000 (£180,000) a seat – for the beginning of commercial operations in 2022. How did astronaut Richard Branson* take that? He seemed unruffled. He aims to cross the Kármán line – “so none of our astronauts have an asterisk next to their name”, as the company said in a tweet last week. He has his own rocket, Blue Origin, which is set to take off in a matter of days. Virgin Galactic’s passenger rocket plane VSS Unity, carrying Richard Branson and crew, begins its ascent. The US Federal Aviation Administration considers 50 miles to be the edge of space and awards astronaut wings to anyone who gets that far.Īre you saying that Branson did this for a badge? He means to launch a profitable space tourism operation.Īnd Bezos? The same. The spacecraft reached an altitude of 86.1 kilometers (53.5 miles, or about 282,000 feet). And Branson’s craft only got to 53 miles. Who’s right? It’s complicated: the Kármán line, the internationally recognised threshold where space is said to begin, is 62 miles above Earth. Branson’s rival billionaire would-be astronaut, Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, seems to think it’s a bit higher up. You mean people think he faked the whole thing? It’s more a question of where space starts. How long was Branson in space for? Depending on who you ask, either a matter of minutes or no time at all. I spent most of the afternoon watching drunk, shirtless people throw bottles at each other.
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How come I didn’t hear about it? Possibly because it was the same day as the Euro 2020 final, the Wimbledon men’s final and the usual pandemic news. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital spacecraft took its first full crew, which included the company’s billionaire founder Richard Branson, on a brief foray into space. The billionaire was aboard a Virgin Galactic vess. Was it a secret mission? Hardly – the launch was hosted by the comedian Stephen Colbert, and musical guest Khalid played a new song. British Billionaire Richard Branson completed his trip to space in his Virgin Galactic spaceship on Sunday.
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How’s that all progressing? He went on Sunday. Didn’t he have plans to blast himself into space on his own rocket, or something? Yes. Virgin Galactic? A private space travel venture.