Richard Branson plans to trump Jeff Bezos by 9 days in billionaires' space race

theregister.com

3 pointsbencollier492 comments

>being first carries its own significance.

Charles Simonyi (Microsoft) has been in the orbit twice, total 26d 14h 27m.

Other millionaires Mark Shuttleworth (9d 21h 25m), Guy Laliberte. Dennis Tito was the first.

They didn’t create rocket companies that could fly themselves into space.