Richard Branson Becomes First Billionaire in Space, Beats Jeff Bezos

SEATTLE – Entrepreneur English Richard Branson will be the first billionaire to reach orbit. He will beat the billionaire United States of America (AS) Jeff Bezos.

Branson’s Virgin Galactic flight is scheduled to launch into space on July 11, nine days before the launch of Amazon’s founder Blue Origin.

“Branson will be on Virgin Galactic’s fourth test aircraft as ‘Astronaut 001’ with the task of evaluating a customer’s spaceflight experience,” said Virgin Galactic’s announcement. The 70-year-old Briton was originally scheduled to be on Virgin Galactic’s second flight, but was transferred in a coup. public relations (PR) of Bezos and his Blue Origin group.

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Bezos scheduled his flight for July 20, just in time for the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969.

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