The battle to lead the space race among billionaires gets serious after entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has announced to travel into space on July 11.
The billionaire owner of Virgin Galactic would go to the edge of the space, leaving behind his competitor owner of Blue Origin and Amazon, Jeff Bezos, who is all set to begin his space journey on July 20.
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The entrepreneur will go out into space on the fourth crewed space voyage of his company, 22nd in total.
Our first fully crewed rocket powered test flight is planned to take place on July 11th with two pilots and four mission specialists including @RichardBranson onboard.
If we were flying your crew, who’d be floating in zero gravity next to you? Tag your astronauts! #Unity22 pic.twitter.com/3FTCls7A4W
— Virgin Galactic (@virgingalactic) July 2, 2021
Virgin Galactic will make two more test flights before launching its commercial service in 2022.
Virgin’s VSS Unity spaceplane would be the commencement of an era of private commercial flights to space.
Besides billionaires Branson and Bezos, SpaceX owner Elon Musk is also in the race but he has not revealed when he would be traveling to space himself but rather wants to start commercial tourism beyond earth’s atmosphere.
He believes that the space tourism market can grow up to $3 billion by 2030.