Forget SpaceX! Elon Musk splashes out $250,000 for a seat on a Virgin Galactic flight rather than 飛行機で行くing with his own space 会社／堅い

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SpaceX 創立者 Elon Musk has 購入（する）d a ticket to 飛行機で行く to the 辛勝する／優位 of space with Virgin Galactic, によれば the space 会社／堅い, which is celebrating the 開始する，打ち上げる of Sir Richard Branson into space on Sunday.?

Mr Musk paid a $10,000 (£7,000) deposit to reserve a seat with Branson's space 観光旅行，事業 会社／堅い, with the final ticket price rumoured to be about $250,000 (£180,000).?

However, a trip with SpaceX is 推定する／予想するd to be 意味ありげに more expensive, with space 観光旅行，事業 会社／堅い Axiom Space selling tickets on a 乗組員 Dragon 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル, with a 10-day stay on the ISS for $55 million (£39 million).

Closer to Earth, Virgin Galactic is also 申し込む／申し出ing a pair of tickets as part of a 競争, to 'open up space for everyone,' によれば Branson, who said he 手配中の，お尋ね者 everyone from any background to have 接近 to space.

Branson travelled 53.5 miles above the surface of the Earth, taking him and five 乗組員 mates to the 辛勝する／優位 of space where they experienced 無重量状態 and 収入 their 宇宙飛行士 wings, pinned on them by 退役軍人 Canadian 宇宙飛行士 Chris Hadfield.

Branson told the Today show on NBC this morning: 'Once you're an 宇宙飛行士, you're always an 宇宙飛行士.'

Speaking to a （人が）群がる of 観客s after his flight, Branson said: 'Like most kids, I have dreamt of this moment since I was kid. But nothing can 準備する you for the 見解（をとる） of Earth from space, the whole thing was just magical.'?

This not only saw him 伸び（る） his 宇宙飛行士 wings, but also 勝利，勝つ the '億万長者 space race' between himself, アマゾン 創立者 Jeff Bezos and SpaceX 創立者 Elon Musk, who was at Spaceport America in New Mexico to watch the historic flight.?

'Elon's a friend and maybe I'll travel on one of his ships one day,' Branson said, after 確認するing that he Musk had 購入（する）d his ticket.?

Once Virgin Galactic begin 商業の 操作／手術s, they hope to operate more than one flight per day out of Spaceport America?but will first 取って代わる the VSS まとまり 原型 with a pair of new （手先の）技術 more easily 持続するd and 許すing for faster turnaround and up to 400 flights per year from each spaceport they operate out of.

With just 550 people going to space so far since?Yuri Gagarin left the Earth in 1961, 飛行機で行くing daily with the six-person cabin, Branson's 会社／堅い could 二塁打 the number of people 持つ／拘留するing 宇宙飛行士 wings in under 100 days.

SpaceX 創立者 Elon Musk has 購入（する）d a ticket to 飛行機で行く to the 辛勝する／優位 of space with Virgin Galactic, によれば the space 会社／堅い, fresh from the 開始する，打ち上げる of Sir Richard Branson into space on Sunday

Branson travelled 53.5 miles above the surface of the Earth, taking him and five 乗組員 mates to the 辛勝する／優位 of space where they experienced 無重量状態, telling the Today show on NB C this morning: 'Once you're an 宇宙飛行士, you're always an 宇宙飛行士'

Virgin Galactic 創立者 Sir Richard Branson(L), with Sirisha Bandla on his shoulders, 元気づけるs with 乗組員 members after 飛行機で行くing into space 船内に a Virgin Galactic 大型船, a voyage he 述べるd as the 'experience of a lifetime'

Branson said the goal was to open space to as many people as possible, 発表するing the new ticket 競争, run by for-利益（をあげる） fundraising 会社／堅い Omaze.??

It will operate as a?sweepstake, with a pair of tickets, which could be 価値（がある） 井戸／弁護士席 over $500,000 (£360,000), up for 得る，とらえるs.

There is no cost to enter, but you can 寄付する to the Space for Humanity 創立／基礎, 開始する，打ち上げるd to 促進する space travel and train 未来 leaders, in return for more 入ること／参加（者）s.

Branson says he 想像するs a 未来 world in which 'people of all backgrounds, any gender, any ethnicity, have equal 接近 to space.'

Bezos is scheduled to 飛行機で行く in the Blue Origin New Shepard ロケット／急騰する on July 20, which is also the 52nd 周年記念日 of the Apollo 11 moon 上陸.?

Branson's flight, the first fully 乗組員d trip to space for Virgin Galactic, was ーするつもりであるd as a 信用／信任-上げるing plug for the 会社／堅い, which 計画（する）s to start taking 支払う／賃金ing 顧客s on a short trip, 許すing them to become 宇宙飛行士s, from 2022.??

The 70-year-old British?entrepreneur pumped his 握りこぶしs in the 空気／公表する as he stepped の上に the 滑走路 in New Mexico before skipping に向かって his daughter Holly's twins Etta and Artie and scooping them up in his 武器.

Branson, who said he had dreamed about travelling to space since childhood, 株d a group 抱擁する with the 残り／休憩（する） of his family 含むing?his wife Joan Templeman, his son Sam and granddaughter Eva-Deia.

He was one of six?Virgin Galactic 従業員s 船内に VSS まとまり for the voyage to 280,000ft, each there to 実験（する） a different 面 of the flight ahead of 商業の 操作／手術s in 2022.

He was joined in space by 長，指導者 操縦する David Mackay, a Scottish-born 実験（する） 操縦する for the 王室の 空気／公表する 軍隊 who went on to 飛行機で行く for Sir Richard's Virgin A tlantic, and 長，指導者 flight 指導者 Michael Masucci in the 操縦室.

Also onboard with Branson in the cabin was 長，指導者 宇宙飛行士 指導者 Beth Moses, a former 航空宇宙局 engineer, lead 操作／手術s engineer Colin Bennett and Sirisha Bandla, a company 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長.?

Branson's flight, the first fully 乗組員d trip to space for Virgin Galactic, was ーするつもりであるd as a 信用／信任-上げるing plug for the 会社／堅い, which 計画（する）s to start taking 支払う／賃金ing 顧客s on a short trip, 許すing them to become 宇宙飛行士s, from 2022

Speaking to a （人が）群がる of 観客s after his flight, Branson said: 'Like most kids, I have dreamt of this moment since I was kid. But nothing can 準備する you for the 見解（をとる） of Earth from space, the whole thing was just magical'?

Branson said the goal was to open space to as many people as possible, 発表するing the new ticket 競争, run by for-利益（をあげる） fun draising 会社／堅い Omaze

He was joined in space by 長，指導者 操縦する David Mackay, a Scottish-born 実験（する） 操縦する for the 王室の 空気／公表する 軍隊 who went on to 飛行機で行く for Sir Richard's Virgin 大西洋, and 長，指導者 flight 指導者 Michael Masucci in the 操縦室

Branson's daughter Holly 述べるd watching her dad travel to space as 存在 an 'emotional 旅行'.?

'I am truly lost for words and have never felt so many バタフライs in my stomach,' she wrote on Instagram.

Branson arrived at Spaceport America on a bicycle, ready to climb 船内に the mothership, VMS Eve, 指名するd for his late mother who was supposed to travel with him, but died before the ship was ready for 乗客s.?

His flight was watched by his wife, children and grandchildren as he 実行するd his life long dream to see the Earth from space.?

'Dad has dreamt about this day since he was a little kid, but said that going to space was more magical than he ever imagined,' Holly said. 'It was more magical and emotional to watch than I could have ever imagined too.'???

Virgin Galactic doesn't 推定する／予想する to start 飛行機で行くing 顧客s before next year. Blue Origin has yet to open ticket sales or even 発表する prices, but late last week 誇るd 経由で Twitter that it would take （弁護士の）依頼人s higher and 申し込む／申し出 bigger windows

Branson's daughter Holly 述べるd watching her dad travel to space as 存在 an 'emotional 旅行'

'I am truly lost for words and have never felt so many バタフライs in my stomach,' she wrote on Instagram

Speaking to a （人が）群がる of 観客s afterwards, Branson said: 'Like most kids, I have dreamt of this moment since I was kid. But nothing can 準備する you for the 見解（をとる） of Earth from space, the whole thing was just magical'

Branson was 初めは scheduled to go on the next 実験（する） flight, but moved his trip 今後 after Jeff Bezos 発表するd he would go to space on July 20.

This created a 競争 with Blue Origin, which also hopes to 申し込む／申し出 支払う／賃金ing 顧客s the chance to experience a few minutes of 無重量状態 and spaceflight.?

Bezos 申し込む／申し出d his congratulations to Branson on his maiden voyage into space, 説 he 'can't wait to join the club!'

There are over 600 people who have been waiting as long as 15 years for a chance to travel in the spaceplane.

Tourists are 推定する／予想するd to 支払う／賃金 250,000 US dollars (£180,000) for a spaceflight on Virgin Galactic, which 含むs four minutes of 無 gravity.?

'The 使節団 声明 that I wrote inside my space 控訴 was to turn the dream of space travel into a reality for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren and for many people alive today, for everybody,' Branson said.?

'We are here to make space more accessible to all and we want to turn the next 世代 f dreamers into the 宇宙飛行士s of today and tomorrow.'

Speaking of the 競争, he said?'every 寄付 supports a charity called space for humanity and you will be entered into a sweepstake for a chance to 勝利，勝つ not one, but two seats 船内に one of the first Virgin Galactic spaceflights.'?

同様に as becoming an 宇宙飛行士, 競争 勝利者s will also join Sir Richard Branson for a personal VIP 小旅行する of Spaceport America.

Omaze, who is running the 競争, which is 解放する／自由な to enter, wrote on a 地位，任命する 促進するing the 競争:?

'You and your guest will board a Virgin Galactic spaceship where you'll take off 滑らかに, just like an airplane, and watch as the colours outside your window change from blue to indigo to midnight 黒人／ボイコット.

'Hovering above Earth, nothing can 準備する you for the breathtaking 見解（をとる）s of our 有望な 惑星 and surrounding 星雲. Or 審理，公聴会 'you are now 解放する／自由な to float about the cabin.'

It isn't yet 明確に 正確に／まさに when the 勝利者 will 飛行機で行く, but Branson said it would be on one of the first trips.?

Virgin Galactic 創立者 Richard Branson, left, receives a Virgin Galactic made 宇宙飛行士 wings pin from Canadian 宇宙飛行士 Chris Hadfield after his flight to space from Spaceport America 近づく Truth or Consequences

宇宙飛行士 Chris Hadfield 持つ／拘留するs wings before 現在のing to 乗組員 members. Every 未来 宇宙飛行士 飛行機で行くing with Virgin Galactic will receive the pin, with Branson 宣言するing 'once an 宇宙飛行士, always an 宇宙飛行士'

Bezos 地位，任命するd to Instagram: ''@richardbransonand 乗組員, congratulations on the flight. Can't wait to join the club!'

So far just over 550 people have been to space, defined by the 50 mile 限界 示唆するd by 航空宇宙局, but that number could 二塁打 in a couple of years with the advent of sub-軌道の space 観光旅行，事業

'Cameras throughout the cabin will 記録，記録的な／記録する every moment in HD. With 17 circular windows for 見解（をとる）ing, every seat is a window seat. And there's even a mirror to watch yourself floating through space.

'に引き続いて a smooth glide 降下／家系, you'll return 支援する to Earth 安全に, but forever transformed. You're an 宇宙飛行士 now.'

So far just over 550 people have been to space, defined by the 50 mile 限界 示唆するd by 航空宇宙局, but that number could 二塁打 in a couple of years with the advent of sub-軌道の space 観光旅行，事業.

Virgin Galactic isn't the only space 会社／堅い using the 申し込む／申し出 of a ticket to raise money for charity. Blue Origin ran a $28 million auction for a ticket on the first 乗組員d 実験（する） flight, と一緒に Bezos, his brother and 女性（の） 宇宙飛行士 Wally Funk.

The Blue Origin 乗客s will spend at least 10 minutes floating in 無 gravity inside the 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル during the?sub-軌道の sightseeing trip.?

Blue Origin 指名するd the New Shepard program after 宇宙飛行士 Alan Shepard, who was the first American to 飛行機で行く into space 60 years ago.?

But Branson has arguably 'won the space race' by pipping Bezos to the 地位，任命する by just nine days, 同様に as SpaceX 創立者 Elon Musk, who tweeted, 'Congratulations, beautiful flight!'

Sunday's 開始する，打ち上げる was あられ／賞賛するd a '目印 moment' for Branson, 同様に as the whole 商業の space 産業.

Take-off had been 延期するd by about 90 minutes on Sunday 予定 to the 天候 夜通し at Spaceport America in New Mexico, in the US.

（映画の）フィート数 streamed live online showed the Virgin Galactic in the 空気／公表する at about 3.45pm UK time, and the 航空機 had reached 40,000 feet by 4pm.?

The 宇宙船 was carried up into the atmosphere by its mothership, the?VS S まとまり, before 存在 解放（する）d so it could 力／強力にする up to highs of 250,000 feet.?

Sir Richard and his 乗組員 reached 速度(を上げる）s of Mach 3 on their way to the 辛勝する／優位 of space.?

After a short （一定の）期間 during which they experienced 無重量状態, the （手先の）技術 then pointed downwards and made its way 支援する to the ground, touching 負かす／撃墜する around 4.40pm.

On the return flight, Sir Richard あられ／賞賛するd the 'experience of a lifetime' and the 'hard, hard work' that went into the flight.?

Speaking to a （人が）群がる of 観客s afterwards, Branson said: 'Like most kids, I have dreamt of this moment since I was kid. But nothing can 準備する you for the 見解（をとる） of Earth from space, the whole thing was just magical.'?

Sir Richard later 地位，任命するd a ビデオ of himself while onboard まとまり, 説: 'To all you kids 負かす／撃墜する there, I was once a child with a dream, looking up to the 星／主役にするs. Now I'm an adult in a spaceship, with lots of other wonderful adults looking 負かす／撃墜する at our beautiful, beautiful Earth.?

While in space, の直前に England lost to Italy on 刑罰，罰則s in the Euro 2020 final, lead 操作／手術s engineer Colin Bennett, 最高の，を越す, shows a message for the England team, 説 'it's coming home'

Sir Richard later 地位，任命するd a ビデオ of himself while onboard まとまり, 説: 'To all you kids 負かす／撃墜する there, I was once a child with a dream, looking up to the 星／主役にするs. Now I'm an adult in a spaceship, with lots of other wonderful adults looking 負かす／撃墜する at our beautiful, beautiful Earth

'To the next 世代 of dreamers, if we can do this, just imagine what you can do,' Branson said to the （人が）群がる waiting to 迎える／歓迎する him after his trip to space.

He also paid 尊敬の印 to the late scientist Stephen 強硬派ing, who he said it was an 'honour' to know.

On the ground, Michael Colglazier, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of Virgin Galactic, said: 'This is a 目印 moment for Virgin Galactic.?

'It's a 目印 moment for the new 商業の space 産業 and it certainly is a 目印 moment for our 創立者 Richard Branson.'

The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space 計画（する） まとまり and mothership separate 飛行機で行くing way above Spaceport America, 近づく Truth and Consequences, New Mexico on July 11, 2021 on the way to the cosmos

Virgin Galactic's 乗客 ロケット／急騰する 計画（する） VSS まとまり, carrying 億万長者 Richard Branson and 乗組員, starts its engine before 開始するing it ascent to the 辛勝する／優位 of space above Spaceport America 近づく Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

He said the company's work on Sunday was 献身的な to '開始 up space to all'.?

The 会社／堅い has some lofty ambitions in space, hoping to one day have up to a dozen 宇宙船 operating out of a number of spaceports around the world - with 400 trips from each spaceport every year.

In an earlier interview for MailOnline, Colglazier said they had to first move to a more agile (n)艦隊／(a)素早い, with new 見解／翻訳／版s of the spaceship that area easier to adapt, 持続する and operate.

He said one day it could be possible to use the Mothership and Spaceship combination to operate point to point flights ar ound the world, but wouldn't say whether that was an active goal of the 会社／堅い.?

On the ground, Michael Colglazier, 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of Virgin Galactic, said: 'This is a 目印 moment for Virgin Galactic'

Jeff Bezos 地位，任命するs a message to Richard Branson (pictured) on July 10, 2021: @richardbranson wishing you and the whole team a successful and 安全な flight tomorrow. Best of luck!'

Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space 計画（する） まとまり and mothership separate as they 飛行機で行く way above Spaceport America, 近づく Truth and Consequences, New Mexico on July 11, 2021 on the way to the cosmos?

Blue Origin 創立者 Jeff Bezos (pictured) has an 概算の personal 価値（がある） of $186.2 billion (£131.5 billion)

マイク Moses, a 最高の，を越す (n)役員／(a)執行力のある at Virgin Galactic, said the flight was 'perfect' aside from some 問題／発行するs with the 伝達／伝染 of images from inside the cabin. He 追加するd the 宇宙船 looked pristine upon its return.??

'That was an amazing 業績／成就,' former Canadian 宇宙飛行士 Chris Hadfield, a one-time 指揮官 of the International Space 駅／配置する, said. 'I'm just so delighted at what this open door is going to lead to now.?It's a 広大な／多数の／重要な moment.'?????

In a 声明 地位，任命するd after the flight, Sir Richard said 'how you feel when you look when you look 負かす／撃墜する on Earth is impossible to put into words, it's just?indescribable beauty. I can't wait for you all to get up there.'?

The 実業家 追加するd: 'Imagine a world where people of all ages and backgrounds, from anywhere, of any gender, of any ethnicity have equal 接近 to space. They will in turn, 奮起させる us all 支援する here on Earth.

'If you've ever had a dream, now is the time to make it come true. Welcome to the 夜明け of a new space age.'

Sir Richard also 確認するd 計画（する）s to 'turn the next 世代 of dreamers into the 宇宙飛行士s of today'.

This was said while 発表するing an?Omaze sweepstake for the chance to 勝利，勝つ two seats 船内に one of the first 商業の Virgin Galactic flights.?

Other 会社／堅いs operating in the 商業の space 部門 sent their congratulations. ロケット／急騰する Lab wrote: 'Congratulations to @richardbranson and the @virgingalactic team. A big day for space!'?

Branson was 手渡すd his 宇宙飛行士 wings by 退役軍人 Hadfield, who also co-hosted the マスコミ ニュース報道 of the event.?

Branson floats in 無 gravity on board Virgin Galactic's 乗客 ロケット／急騰する 計画（する） VSS まとまり

Branson 配達するing a message from space 船内に SpaceShip Two まとまり 22 during their flight after take off from Spaceport America, New Mexico, US

Branson (pictured in the cabin of VSS まとまり), Bezos and Musk, who have a 連合させるd 逮捕する 価値（がある） 越えるing $380 billion (£274 billion), have 注ぐd their 近づく limitless 資源s into their 各々の space start-ups in the hopes of revolutionising 航空宇宙学 旅行s.

Branson was pictured ahead of his historic flight today with SpaceX and Tesla 創立者 Elon Musk, who will travel to space with Virgin in the 近づく 未来.

Musk, 50, and Branson, 70, were snapped ahead of Sunday's 旅行 to space と一緒に the message: 'Big day ahead. 広大な／多数の／重要な to start the mor ning with a friend.'??

Branson, Bezos and Musk, who have a 連合させるd 逮捕する 価値（がある） 越えるing $380 billion (£274 billion), have 注ぐd their 近づく limitless 資源s into their 各々の space start-ups in the hopes of revolutionising 航空宇宙学 旅行s.?

The group have all said that they?were 奮起させるd by the first moon 上陸 in 1969, when the US （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the Soviet Union in the space race, and had 以前 said how much it would mean for each to 勝利，勝つ the 'new space race'.

Although SpaceX and Tesla 創立者 Musk has said he wants to go into space, and even 'die on 火星', he has not said when he might 爆破 into 軌道.??

Branson, left, sprays シャンペン酒 to 乗組員 member Beth Moses while celebrating thei r flight to space from Spaceport America 近づく Truth or Consequences, N.M., Sunday

Branson wears his 宇宙飛行士's wings at a news 会議／協議会, after 飛行機で行くing with a 乗組員 in Virgin Galactic's 乗客 ロケット／急騰する 計画（する） VSS まとまり

Before climbing 船内に, Branson 調印するd the 宇宙飛行士 スピードを出す／記録につける 調書をとる／予約する and wisecracked: 'The 指名する's Branson. Sir Richard Branson. 宇宙飛行士 001. License to thrill.'

The flamboyant 億万長者, who was pictured cycling to the 施設 this morning, is the second oldest person to travel to space - after 77-year-old John Glenn in 1998.?

However, he will 減少（する） to become the third oldest once space 開拓する Wally Funk, 82, travels to space with Blue Origin's New Shepard next week.?

Sir Richard told the Times the 見解（をとる） alone will be 価値（がある） the £1billion he has spent on the 事業／計画（する）, and 追加するd: 'I think it's one of the 推論する／理由s that people want to become 宇宙飛行士s. They want to look 支援する at this beautiful Earth.?

'Every 宇宙飛行士 I've known has come 支援する 決定するd that the 残り／休憩（する） of their lives will be spent working harder to 保護する the 惑星 that we live on.'

He was joined in space by 長，指導者 操縦する David Mackay, a Scottish-born 実験（する） 操縦する for the 王室の 空気／公表する 軍隊 who went on to 飛行機で行く for Sir Richard's Virgin 大西洋, and 長，指導者 flight 指導者 Michael Masucci in the 操縦室.

Also onboard with Branson in the cabin was 長，指導者 宇宙飛行士 指導者 Beth Moses, a former 航空宇宙局 engineer, lead 操作／手術s engineer Colin Bennett and Sirisha Bandla, a company 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長.?

The six grabbed a 解除する from mothership 操縦するs C.J. Sturckow, a former 航空宇宙局 宇宙飛行士, and Kelly Latimer, before VSS まとまり was dropped from VMS Eve.?

A 割引 travel service it is not, with tickets 定価つきの in the hundreds of thousands.?

But 需要・要求する is 明らかに strong, with several hundred 豊富な would-be 国民 宇宙飛行士s already having 調書をとる／予約するd 保留（地）／予約s, 定価つきの at around £180,000 per ticket (around $250,000).

Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX are technically competing but each 申し込む／申し出ing a very different service or profile?

Branson arrived at Spaceport America on a bicycle, ready to climb 船内に the mothership, VMS Eve, 指名するd for his late mother who was supposed to travel with him, but died before the ship was ready for 乗客s.

Branson said he felt like a 'kid' in the cabin and couldn't wait to open up flights to more people in the 近づく 未来

The スイスの-based 投資 bank UBS has 概算の the 可能性のある value of the space 観光旅行，事業 market reaching $3 billion 毎年 by 2030.

証明するing ロケット／急騰する travel 安全な for the public is 重要な, given the inherent dangers of spaceflight.

An earlier 原型 of the Virgin Galactic ロケット／急騰する 計画（する） 衝突，墜落d during a 実験（する） flight over California's Mojave 砂漠 in 2014, 殺人，大当り one 操縦する and 本気で 負傷させるing another.??

Virgin Galactic doesn't 推定する／予想する to start 飛行機で行くing 顧客s before next year. Blue Origin has yet to open ticket sales or even 発表する prices, but late last week 誇るd 経由で Twitter that it would take （弁護士の）依頼人s higher and 申し込む／申し出 bigger windows.

Unlike Blue Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX, which 開始する，打ち上げる 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセルs 頂上に reusable booster ロケット／急騰するs, Virgin Galactic uses a twin-fuselage 航空機 to get its ロケット／急騰する ship aloft.

The space 計画（する） is 解放（する）d from the mothership about 44,000 feet (13,400 メーターs) up, then 解雇する／砲火／射撃s its ロケット／急騰する モーター to streak straight to space. 最大限 高度 is 概略で 55 miles (70 キロメーターs), with three to four minutes of 無重量状態 供給するd.

The ロケット／急騰する 計画（する） - which 要求するs two 操縦するs - glides to a 滑走路 上陸 at its Spaceport America base.

Virgin Galactic reached space for the first time in 2018, repeating the feat in 2019 and again this past May, each time with a 極小の 乗組員. It received 許可 from the 連邦の 航空 行政 last month to start 開始する，打ち上げるing 顧客s.??

The 70-year-old said he was going into space to '実験（する） the 顧客 experience' from start to finish, to 確実にする that those 支払う／賃金ing to go up get the best possible experience.?

It is the fourth 乗組員d flight of VSS まとまり and only the second to 含む 乗客s in the cabin. The first saw Beth Moses go up in February 2019.?

THE BILLIONAIRE SPACE RACE: HOW BRANSON, MUSK AND BEZOS ARE VYING FOR GALACTIC SUPREMACY

Jeff Bezos in 前線 of Blue Origin's space 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル

Dubbed the 'NewSpace' 始める，決める, Jeff Bezos, Sir Richard Branson and Elon Musk all say they were 奮起させるd by the first moon 上陸 in 1969, when the US （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the Soviet Union in the space race, and there is no 疑問 how much it would mean to each of them to 勝利，勝つ the 'new space race'.

アマゾン 創立者 Bezos had looked 始める，決める to be the first of the three to 飛行機で行く to space, having 発表するd 計画（する）s to 開始する，打ち上げる 船内に his space company Blue Origin's New Shepard 宇宙船 on July 20, but Branson （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 him to the punch.

The British 億万長者 became Virgin Galactic 宇宙飛行士 001 when he made it to space on a suborbital flight nine days before Bezos - on July 11 in a 実験（する） flight.

Bezos travelled to space on July 20 with his younger brother 示す,?Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old physics student whose dad 購入（する）d his ticket, and 開拓するing 女性（の） 宇宙飛行士 Wally Funk, 82.

Although SpaceX and Tesla 創立者 Musk has said he wants to go into space, and even 'die on 火星', he has not said when he might 爆破 into 軌道 - but has 購入（する）d a ticket with Virgin Galactic for a suborbital flight.

SpaceX became the first of the 'space 観光旅行，事業' 操作者s to send a fully 非軍事の 乗組員 into 軌道, with the Inspiration4 使節団 基金d by 億万長者 Jared Isaacman.?

His flight was on a Dragon 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル and SpaceX ロケット／急騰する built by space-obsessed 億万長者, Elon Musk and took off for the three day 軌道の trip on September 16 - going higher than the International Space 駅／配置する.?

SpaceX appears to be 主要な the way in the broader 億万長者 space race with 非常に／多数の 開始する，打ち上げるs carrying 航空宇宙局 器具／備品 to the ISS and 共同s to send tourists to space by 2021.??

On February 6 2018, SpaceX sent ロケット／急騰する に向かって the 軌道 of 火星, 140 million miles away, with Musk's own?red Tesla roadster 大（公）使館員d.?

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Elon Musk with his Dragon 乗組員 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル

SpaceX has also taken two groups of 宇宙飛行士s to the |International Space 駅／配置する, with 乗組員 from 航空宇宙局, ESA and JAXA, the Japanese space 機関.?

SpaceX has been sending （製品，工事材料の）一回分s of 60 衛星s into space to help form its Starlink 網状組織, which is already in beta and 供給するing 急速な／放蕩な internet to 田舎の areas.?

Branson and Virgin Galactic are taking a different approach to 征服する／打ち勝つing space.?It has 繰り返して, and 首尾よく, 行為／行うd 実験（する） flights of the?Virgin Galactic's まとまり space 計画（する）.?

The first took place in December 2018 and the 最新の on May 22, with the?flight 加速するing to more than 2,000 miles per hour (Mach 2.7).?

More than 600 豊富な 顧客s to date, 含むing celebrities Brad Pitt and Katy Perry, have reserved a $250,000 (£200,000) seat on one of Virgin's space trips. The final tickets are 推定する／予想するd to cost $350,000.

Branson has 以前 said he 推定する／予想するs Elon Musk to 勝利，勝つ the race to 火星 with his 私的な ロケット／急騰する 会社／堅い SpaceX.?

Richard Branson with the Virgin Galactic （手先の）技術

SpaceShipTwo can carry six 乗客s and two 操縦するs. Each 乗客 gets the same seating position with two large windows - one to the 味方する and one 総計費.

The space ship is 60ft long with a 90inch 直径 cabin 許すing 最大限 room for the 宇宙飛行士s to float in 無 gravity.

It climbs to 50,000ft before the ロケット／急騰する engine 点火（する）s. SpaceShipTwo separates from its 運送／保菌者 （手先の）技術, White Knight II, once it has passed the 50-mile 示す.

乗客s become '宇宙飛行士s' when they reach the Karman line, the 境界 of Earth's atmosphere.

The spaceship will then make a suborbital 旅行 with だいたい six minutes of 無重量状態, with the entire flight 継続している だいたい 1.5 hours.

Bezos 明らかにする／漏らすd in April 2017 that he 財政／金融s Blue Origin with around $1 billion (£720 million) of アマゾン 在庫／株 each year.

The system consists of a pressurised 乗組員 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル 頂上に a reusable 'New Shepard' booster ロケット／急騰する.????

At its 頂点（に達する）, the 要約する／（宇宙ロケットの）カプセル reached 65 miles (104 kilometres), just above the 公式の／役人 threshold for space and landed vertically seven minutes after liftoff.?

Blue Origin are working on New Glenn, the next 世代 激しい 解除する ロケット／急騰する, that will compete with the SpaceX Falcon 9.?