{"id":289696,"date":"2021-07-02T20:02:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T17:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/after-snubbing-bezos-richard-branson-claims-there-is-no-space-race\/"},"modified":"2021-07-02T20:02:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T17:02:30","slug":"after-snubbing-bezos-richard-branson-claims-there-is-no-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/after-snubbing-bezos-richard-branson-claims-there-is-no-space-race\/","title":{"rendered":"#After snubbing Bezos, Richard Branson claims there is no space race"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#After snubbing Bezos, Richard Branson claims there is no space race<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson has insisted the billionaire space race is not a \u201ccompetition\u201d \u2014 just a day after he announced he would beat Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to blast off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that it\u2019s been painted as a race, honestly I don\u2019t think either of us see it that way,\u201d Branson said Friday<\/a> on Good Morning America.<\/p>\n

Virgin Galactic announced Thursday that its next spaceflight test on July 11 will carry Branson himself \u2014 leapfrogging Bezos, the world\u2019s richest man, by nine days.<\/p>\n

Bezos, who has a net worth of almost $200 billion, announced last month that he and his brother will be on Blue Origin\u2019s first crewed flight to space on July 20. <\/p>\n

But on Friday, Branson, who has a net worth of over $7.5 billion, sought to downplay the conspicuous timing of the announcements as the two billionaires jostle to become the first industry titan to fly to space. <\/p>\n

\"Jeff
Jeff Bezos will be on Blue Origin\u2019s first crewed flight to space on July 20.<\/figcaption>
EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re both doing something pretty different \u2014 the people that go up with us are going up in a spaceship \u2014 they launch from a beautiful space port in New Mexico and then Jeff has a different app<\/a>roach,\u201d Branson said. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re not really in direct competition. I have enormous respect for what he\u2019s doing and I know he has enormous respect for what our wonderful team are doing as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, after Virgin Galactic\u2019s announcement, Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin couldn\u2019t keep from taking a shot at its rival. <\/p>\n

\"Virgin
Virgin Galactic will launch Branson into space from New Mexico. <\/figcaption>
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In a statement, Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith emphasized that his company\u2019s rocket travel<\/a>s slightly higher than Virgin Galactic\u2019s. <\/p>\n

Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard spacecraft passes a few kilometers above the internationally-recognized boundary of space, the so-called Karman Line, which stands at an altitude of 100 kilometers above\u00a0Earth\u2019s\u00a0mean sea level.<\/p>\n

Virgin Galactic\u2019s VSS Unity spacecraft, on the other hand, launches its homeport in New Mexico \u2014 dubbed Spaceport America \u2014 with the help of a carrier craft, before igniting its rocket and accelerating to three times the speed of sound. <\/p>\n

It reaches an altitude of about 80 kilometers, where it spends a few minutes in microgravity and gives passengers a chance to enjoy the view.<\/p>\n

\"Blue
Jeff Bezos will be on Blue Origin\u2019s first human flight into space along with his brother Mark.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cWe wish him a great and safe flight, but they\u2019re not flying above the Karman line and it\u2019s a very different experience,\u201d Smith, of Blue Origin, told <\/a>CNBC.<\/p>\n

By US standards, though, both crafts make it to space. The US Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration put the boundary of space lower, at an altitude of about 50 miles.<\/p>\n

Shares of Virgin Galactic spiked about 25 percent in afterhours trading after the company announced Branson\u2019s flight, but the stock gave up most of those gains Friday.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#After snubbing Bezos, Richard Branson claims there is no space race” Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson has insisted the billionaire space race is not a \u201ccompetition\u201d \u2014 just a day after he announced he would beat Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to blast off. \u201cI know that it\u2019s been painted as a race, honestly I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/bezos-branson-space-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[110930,71631,70886,5019],"class_list":["post-289696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7-2-21","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-richard-branson","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}