Billionaires Elon Musk,Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have made space hot again. And investors are afraid of missing out.
The FAA said the rocketship carrying Branson and five Virgin Galactic employees veered off course during its descent back to New Mexico on July 11,bringing outside of its clearance area.
Sir Richard Branson has sold another $US300 million worth of shares in the space tourism venture to fund his pandemic-hit businesses.
On the day that Bezos blasted off,the US government quietly tightened its rules,meaning billionaires could miss out on the designation of being commercial astronauts.
This is just another idea foisted on us by a very rich man that makes about as much sense as sending a submarine into a labyrinthine Thai cave system to locate lost schoolchildren.
The founder of Amazon became the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own rocket and landed safely about 10 minutes after take off.
The admission that the footage of Sir Richard Branson was prerecorded is embarrassing for Virgin Galactic,which has a cross-promotional deal with Trek Bicycle Corp.
Don’t be fooled by the space race between some of the world’s richest people. It’s all about the billions of dollars to be spent by governments on satellite and crewed exploration missions.
British billionaire Richard Branson has succeeded in his attempt to complete the world’s first fully crewed private space flight,reaching an altitude of around 88 kilometres over the New Mexico desert
The competition to be the first billionaire in space should mark a milestone in the towering vanity of the wealthy.
Richard Branson plans to fly to space on July 11,just days before a similar journey by fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos. The shares of Branson’s space venture Virgin Galactic surged.