If all goes as planned, Branson will make his flight nine days before Bezos, the founder of Amazon, straps into the New Shepard capsule built by his rocket company, Blue Origin
Richard Branson looks at photos from the pilots’ perspective following the launch of the test flight of Virgin Galactic’s manned space tourism rocket plane SpaceShipTwo during its space test flight in Mojave, California, U.S. December 13, 2018.
Image: Reuters/Eric Johnson
Seeking to upstage Jeff Bezos as the first rocket company owner to go to space, Richard Branson, the British billionaire who founded a galaxy of Virgin companies, announced Thursday night that he would be a member of the crew on the next test flight of the Virgin Galactic space plane.
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