However, Branson downplayed the competitive angle of the space race, telling CNN ahead of his own flight that Bezos' plans did not affect his own announcement.
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(Previous billionaires to reach space include space tourists such as software billionaire Charles Simonyi in 2007 and video game developer Richard Garriott in 2008.)Īs such, Branson's surprise move to schedule his own spaceflight aboard a Virgin Galactic spacecraft just nine days ahead of Bezos' flight was viewed as an attempt to one-up his rival space-bound billionaire. At the time, it appeared that he was set to become the first of the group of billionaire private space company founders (a fraternity that also includes Branson and SpaceX's Elon Musk) to reach suborbital spaceflight on one of their own companies' rockets. (The teen, Dutch 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, is flying on the Blue Origin flight in place of an anonymous auction winner who paid $28 million for the seat, only to reportedly have "scheduling conflicts." Daemen's seat has been paid for by his father, a private equity CEO, making him Blue Origin's first paying customer.)īezos, who stepped down as Amazon's CEO earlier this month, announced his July 20 spaceflight a month ago.
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