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Amazon founder, and in some ways the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos will audition his version of space tourism for a wider audience on Tuesday (9 a.m. ET), when he boards a Blue Origin rocket. with three others. It comes just after Virgin Galactic showman Richard Branson arguably …

Just over a week after Richard Branson soared to the edge of space, fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos is ready for an equally important journey aboard his own rocket. Bezos will attempt to fly into space on Tuesday, July 20, launching aboard a rocket and capsule developed by Blue Origin, the …

Procuream CEO Andrew Chanin reacts to Virgin Galactic’s successful test flight. As Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic paves the way for space tourism, its sister company, Virgin Orbit, strives to dominate satellites by offering the most efficient fare possible at the lowest cost. Virgin Orbit’s new vice president of flight and …

Dinesh C Sharma Scientific commentator This month sees some unusual activity, with billionaires becoming astronauts. Richard Branson’s space flight earlier this week is to be followed by a similar space mission led by Jeff Bezos. Elon Musk’s third is not far away. More than half a century ago, the space …

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard branson and his team successfully flew to the “edge of space” on the Unity 22 mission aboard a Galactic Virgo the plane on July 12. The event was hailed as the start of space tourism, narrowly beating the launch scheduled for July 20 by another billionaire business …

On June 30, VOX Space LLC, a subsidiary of Virgin Orbit, launched four tiny satellites for the Department of Defense. Two of these satellites are part of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) CubeSat Networked Communications Experiment (CNCE) Block 1. The two CubeSats are on a 90-day mission to demonstrate networked …

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson have a combined net worth of $ 400 billion, roughly the size of the GDP of the entire Irish nation. And the three have decided to devote huge sums of their wealth to the pursuit of their dreams …

MDA cubesats were two of seven government and commercial payloads launched during Virgin Orbit’s second operational mission. WASHINGTON – Two Missile Defense Agency cubesats launched on June 30 aboard Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne began successfully communicating with ground stations last week, the agency said on July 12. The satellites are the …

That’s a question for a lot of space nerds – and, Apparently, Jeff Bezos’ team at Blue Origin – cares a lot. There is no single definition of “outer space”. And deciding where space begins is largely an exercise in figuring out exactly where Earth’s atmosphere becomes less of a …

Sir Richard Branson walks towards the edge of space. Wire picture Billionaire Richard Branson will finally aim to keep 17 years of promises and take a seat on his own Virgin Galactic rocket plane, the VSS on Sunday Unit, as he climbs 55 miles to the edge of space for …