VAN HORN, TEXAS - OCTOBER 13: (L to R) Blue Origin vice president of mission and flight operations. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos did something similar just a few days later in his company Blue Origin’s capsule and rocket. How much would you pay for a trip to space? In July 2021 Virgin Galactic’s founder Richard Branson flew over 50 miles above the Earth’s surface, experiencing weightlessness for eight minutes in its supersonic aircraft. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images The billionaire space race begins Billionaire Richard Branson took off Jfrom a base in New Mexico aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel bound for the edge of space, a voyage he hopes will lift the nascent space tourism industry off the ground.A massive carrier plane made a horizontal take-off from Spaceport, New Mexico at around 8:40 am Mountain Time (1440 GMT) and will ascend for around an hour to an altitude of 50,000 feet (15 kilometers).The mothership will then drop a rocket-powered spaceplane called VSS Unity, which will ignite its engine and ascend at Mach 3 beyond 50 miles (80 kilometers) of altitude, which marks the boundary of space according to the United States. Spaceport America, near Truth and Consequences, New Mexico on Jon the way to the cosmos.
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