The richest man in the world – the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezness – decided to get ahead with a flight into space. If everything goes according to plan, then the first billionaire who left the planet will be the creator of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson. As stated in the statement of the company, so far the flight is scheduled for July 11, but the start depends on weather conditions and success of technical inspections.
In the framework of the Unity 22 mission, you are preparing to send a complete team of six people: there should be two pilots and four passengers, one of which will be Branson himself. Before the flight, a 70-year-old businessman must pass all the same checks that provided for other Virgin Galactic astronauts.
Branson can be ahead of its flight into space of the richest businessman in the world according to Forbes – AMAZON general director and Space company Blue Origin Jeff Bezness. The latter intends to make a space flight on July 20.
According to plan, the ship starts with a cosmodrome in Texas and will rise to a height of 105 kilometers from the surface of the planet, on average it should take 10-15 minutes.
The billionaire is going to take the younger brother and the 82-year pilot Walle Funk. She was preparing back in the 1960s, but then the flights were canceled, and she never visited space. Another place on board a spacecraft played 28 million dollars at auction, the winner’s name was not yet called.