Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson's hopes of being called astronauts have been dashed by a new rule change.
Over the past couple of weeks, the two billionaires believed they had rocketed into space, spending a matter of minutes aboard their respective Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic spacecrafts.
On July 11, Branson was one of a select few passengers in his company's first manned flight into space from New Mexico, US.Less than ten days later, Blue Origin repeated the feat with the world's richest person in Jeff Bezos joined by his brother and both the youngest and oldest people to have launched into space.
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