Jeff Bezos, world’s richest man, set for inaugural space voyage. By Eric M. Johnson
VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) – Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, on Tuesday is set to blast off aboard his company Blue Origin’s New Shepard https://ift.tt/3wRDX1O launch vehicle for a suborbital flight as part of a history-making crew – another milestone in ushering in a new era of private space travel.
The American billionaire is due to fly from a desert site in West Texas on an 11-minute voyage to the edge of space nine days after British rival Richard Branson was aboard his competing space tourism company Virgin Galactic’s successful inaugural suborbital flight https://ift.tt/3ri52Kw from New Mexico.
Branson got to space first, but Bezos is due to fly higher – 62 miles (100 km) for Blue Origin compared to 53 miles (86 km) for Virgin… https://ift.tt/3BjB90V

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