In the race to be the first billionaire in space, Richard Branson is now the odds-on favorite.The brash Britisher, the founder of Virgin Galactic, said today he will fly into space aboard his company’s VSS Unity rocketplane on July 11, beating Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos into sub-orbital space by nine days.Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Bezos’ Blue Origin are battling to to become the leaders in space tourism, with both hoping to offer short rides just above the discernible atmosphere for a few minutes of weightlessness.The flights will have a serious side as well, with researchers, government experiments and space technology tests also part of the business plan.There are no economy class tickets on these rides.
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