Bronson starting space travel in weeks not months!
Virgin Galactic should be in space “within weeks, not months,” CEO Richard Branson told CNBC this week. He added that he expects to fly to space himself “in months and not years,” and customers will be in space “not too long after that.” Virgin Galactic pilots have been flight-testing VSS Unity, with the aim to carry passengers up to 100 km, or about 62 miles, above the Earth.
“We should be in space within weeks, not months,” Branson told CNBC on Tuesday. “And then we will be in space with myself in months and not years.”
The 67-year-old chief executive of Virgin, along with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Tesla’s Elon Musk, is determined to bring tourists to space, sooner rather than later. (Bezos owns the Washington Post.) Bezos has said his space company, Blue Origin, is also expecting to pilot test flights by the end of 2018. In September, Musk announced his SpaceX company had sold its first ticket for a trip around the moon. Last year, Bank of America Merrill Lynch predicted the space sector would be worth $2.7 trillion by 2045.
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