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Richard Branson to Beat Jeff Bezos to Space in Billionaire Space Race
The Bezos-Branson billionaire space race highlights a wider question about funding for space.
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Of the many space milestones coming up in the upcoming weeks, months, and years, the most confounding has to be the race between Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson to be the first billionaire to reach space.
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has announced that he will go to space on July 11, nine days before Jeff Bezos does the same on a Blue Origin New Shepard spacecraft, a post on Virgin Galactic's website revealed.
Branson will be the first space billionaire by nine days
This is how the billionaire space race timeline goes: on June 7, Jeff Bezos announced he would go to space in the first crewed mission of company Blue Origin, with the launch date set for July 20.
Shortly afterward, rumors emerged that Richard Branson would move his own spaceflight on a Virgin Galactic VSS Unity forward in order to beat Bezos to suborbital space.