Billionaire space race: As Jeff Bezos prepares for liftoff, here’s how his flight compares to Richard Branson’s recent Virgin Galactic trip.
The billionaire space race enters a new phase this Tuesday, as Jeff Bezos, who recently stepped down as Amazon’s AMZN, -1.59% CEO, blasts off aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket and space capsule to reach suborbital space. His trip comes just nine days after Virgin Galactic SPCE, -4.85% CEO Richard Branson charted the course with a similar trip aboard his VSS Unity rocket-powered spaceplane.
When Bezos, 57, takes off on the New Shepard from West Texas on Tuesday, however, the fully automated rocket will fly briefly above that Kármán Line. So Bezos is flying higher — but Branson’s trip was longer, as Virgin Galactic’s flights last around 14 to 17 minutes from the time the space plane is released from the mother ship and fires its rocket motor, and the total mission clocks in at around an hour or more.
And Bezos sent his congratulations to Branson and the VSS Unity crew over Instagram after their successful mission, adding, “Can’t wait to join the club!” Plus, the winner of a $28 million charity auction who was also supposed to join Bezos onboard the New Shepard is stepping aside due to a “scheduling conflict,” and will catch a future flight. So now 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, son of Somerset Capital Partners founder and CEO Joes Daemen, will join the flight and become the youngest person in space. The younger Daeman, who hails from the Netherlands, was the runner-up in the charity auction.
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