Cape Canaveral: Richard Branson from Virgin Galactic aims to beat fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos into a nine-day room.
Branson company announced Thursday night that the next test flight will be July 11 and the founder will be among six people on board.
Winged rocket ships will soar from New Mexico – the first carrying a crew full of company employees.
It will only be a fourth trip to the room for Virgin Galactic.
The news came just hours after Bezos’ Blue Origin said Bezos would be accompanied into space on July 20 by the pioneer of Aerospace women who waited 60 years to skyrocket.
Bezos chose July 20 as the launch date of the West Texas – the 52nd birthday of Moon Apollo 11 landings.
He assigned himself to a flight only a month ago, the last stretch of a year-old race to the room between two rich Rocketeers.
The founder of the Amazon will be at the launch of Blue Origin’s debut with people on the ship, accompanied by his brother, a $ 28 million auction winner of $ 28 million and Wally Funk, one of the last members of the Mercury 13 chosen as “honorable guest.” 13 Women’s pilots passed the test.
The same as the original Mercury 7 astronaut NASA returned in the early 1960s, but was prohibited from the corps – and spaceflight – because they were women.
Sedam on Wednesday, Branson refused to say when he would rise into space because restrictions were placed by him by his public company.
But he emphasized him “fit and healthy” to fly as soon as his engineers gave him away.
“I have always been a dreamer.
My mother taught me to never give up and grab the stars.
On July 11, it’s time to change the dream come true (AT) virgingalactic,” he said via Twitter.
, Virgin Galactic launched his rocket ship from an airplane, reaching a height of about 55 miles (88 kilometers).
Blue origin launched a new Shepard rocket from the ground, with capsules soaring to around 66 miles (106 kilometers).
Both height is considered the edge of the room.
In comparison, SpaceX Elon Musk launched its capsules _ crew and cargo _ to orbit around the earth.
These three spacecraft plans to bring customers into space.
Spacex will be the first with a private flight that appears in September.
Flights by Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin lasted about 10 minutes, with three minutes without weight.
But the return was very different: Virgin Galactic Rocket aircraft slid into the landing on the runway, such as the old NASA shuttle force, with a pair of responsible pilots.
Automatic capsules from blue parachute to the desert floor, similar to how Mercury NASA, Apollo capsules make sea splashdown.
Their spaceport is only 200 miles (320 kilometers).
Funk, at the age of 82, will be the oldest person who will be launched into space when the blue origin is turn.
“I’ll love every second.
Wooooo! Ha-ha.
I can barely wait,” Funk said in the Instagram video posted by Bezos.
“Nothing has ever been on the way,” he added.
“They said,” Well, you’re a girl, you can’t do that.
“I said, ‘Guess what is not the problem.
You can still do it if you want to do it and I like to do things that anyone has never done.” He will defeat the deceased John Glenn, who set a record at the age of 77 when Fly on a budget shuttle in 1998.
Glenn Poohed the idea of ​​women who flew in space, shortly after he became the first American tobit the world in 1962.
“Nobody waits longer,” Bezos said through Instagram.
“It’s time.
Welcome to the crew, Wally.” Bezos down as Amazon CEO on Monday.
Blue origin has not announced the ticket price or when the public binds to the spacious six seat capsules.
The new Shepard rocket was named Alan Shepard, the first American in space.
Virgin Galactic has more than 600 bookings in the pipe.
This original ticket applies to $ 250,000.
The company will begin receiving more following flights with Branson.
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Virgin Galactic planned three more test flights before taking customers, Branson initially should be on the second demo that appeared, but moved it in a clear offer to defeat Bezos.
He said on Wednesday, after his other company Virgin Orbit launched a satellite batch, that it was important for his customers to see him riding a rocket ship first, before they climbed onto the ship.