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And the billionaire space race gets a new chapter, and this time Richard Branson goes to space. The space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced that it will take its CEO, Richard Branson, into space on July 11, 9 days before the Blue Ocean mission that will take Jeff Bezos into space, opening up a possible symbolic “space race” between the two billionaires. 4b3k3q
Richard Branson goes to space: what the mission will look like 2y2g1o
A Virgin Galactic confirmed this Thursday that Richard Branson goes to space, on a mission manned by four specialists and two pilots, to “test the experience of a private space trip”. The mission, named Unity 22, will be the fourth manned voyage of the VSS Unity, a space plane that launches from a cargo plane in mid-air and travels to the edge of the planet, arriving at the edge of space and giving crew a few brief moments of zero gravity.
A VSS Unity it can carry up to 6 engers and two pilots and has already been tested 22 times. Later this year, in addition to the test that will take Richard Branson to space, two more tests are planned for the spacecraft, before the first mission that will generate profit for the company, in partnership with Virgin Galactic. There are 600 seats available for consumer reservations, with each “ticket” costing around $250.000.
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last month to Blue Origin announced that Jeff Bezos will be part of the crew of New Shepard's first manned mission, a sub-orbital rocket that goes slightly further than the VSS Unity, ing from Karman's line, in this case, reaching the same space. This was even the reason for Bezos say that your flight will go further.
According to Blue Origin, the younger brother of the founder of Amazon, Mark bezos, will also be on the trip. Jeff Bezos, before the announcement of Richard Branson to go into space, would be the first of the world's billionaires to visit space, in a rocket that he himself spent millions developing.
The capsule of New Shepard It has 6 seats and will be launched by a 17-meter rocket that will propel the capsule for 11 minutes, until it reaches a distance of 96 km from Earth and returns, being considered a sub-orbital flight, which will from Kármán's line. Kármán's line it is the boundary, defined by astronomers and scientists, between Earth's orbit and space.
Of the 4 remaining seats, one of them will be distributed through an auction, where the ticket is already worth more than $2,8M monthly. The other places will possibly be for the technical crew of the Blue Origin.
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