Battle of the billionaires: Richard Branson’s rocket will fly longer, but Jeff Bezos’ will go higher
Battle of the billionaires: Richard Branson’s rocket will fly longer, but Jeff Bezos’ will go higher
Branson is due to take off Sunday from New Mexico, launching with two pilots and three other employees aboard a rocket plane carried aloft by a double-fuselage aircraft.
This combination of 2019 and 2016 file photos shows Jeff Bezos with a model of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, left, and Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket in Mojave, Calif. The two billionaires are putting everything on the line in July 2021 to ride their own rockets into space.(Patrick Semansky)