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Billionaires, livestreams and Stephen Colbert: Welcome to a new era of space flight


Billionaires, livestreams and Stephen Colbert: Welcome to a new era of space flight
Denise Chow
A new kind of space race is set to begin this weekend.
British entrepreneur and Virgin group founder Richard Branson will attempt to fly to space Sunday aboard his company s rocket-powered vehicle. It would mark the culmination of 17 years of work by his space tourism firm, Virgin Galactic.
The launches so close to each other add drama to what some see as a race to space between the two billionaires, even as Branson, 70, has downplayed any rivalry.
“I know nobody will believe me when I say it but honestly there’s isn’t” a competition, he said in a recent interview on NBC s “TODAY” show. ....

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