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An opinion piece about space travel said Richard Branson’s SpaceShipTwo flight on 11 July “won’t even technically go into space, merely quite high in the sky”. To clarify, this is based on the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale’s definition of space being 100km above the surface of the Earth, and the spaceship having reached an altitude of 89km in test flights. In the US, where Virgin Galactic is based, the air force and Nasa define space as being 80km above the planet’s surface (This space race has its downside…, 4 July, page 37).
An article about Labour’s win in the Batley and Spen byelection said: “The mood of British politics would have been very different today if just over 300 votes had gone the other way [to the Conservatives].” That should have said just over 160 votes (A late surge and an unexpected win: how Kim Leadbeater lifted Labour, 4 July, page 6).
In nine days’ time Bezos makes his long-awaited debut launch into space on his rocket, New Shepard – named for Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut in space – manufactured by Bezos’s company Blue Origin.
New Shepard will take Bezos and five others, including his brother, Mark, and pilot Wally Funk, who was denied the job of astronaut in the 1960s because she was a woman, roughly 62 miles above the Earth’s surface.
The flight will also include a yet-to-be-named passenger who paid $28m for their trip in an auction last month.
A spat has erupted over whether Branson’s flight really counts as going into space.