Richard Branson, the swashbuckling owner of Virgin Galactic and media mogul, will take off for a sub-orbital flight on Sunday morning.The flight will make Branson the first owner of a private space company to take his own spacecraft for a brief dip into outer space.
If the launch is successful, he will beat fellow billionaire mogul Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin flight plans by several days, as the Bezos launch is set for July 20.Bezos’s team, however, claims that its flight will reach the true edge of space, going up 62 miles to Branson’s planned 55.Branson will be joined by two company pilots and three Virgin Galactic crewmates.
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