The dawn of a new space age
What’s happened?
The race to create a viable space tourism model is hotting up – and so is the race to attract investment funds into the space sector as a whole. Last Sunday Richard Branson became the first commercial spaceflight pioneer to take a test drive to space and experience zero gravity in his own spaceship, beating Jeff Bezos (who is due to leave Earth next week) and Elon Musk. Together with two pilots and three other colleagues, Virgin Galactic’s Unity 22 rocket plane blasted off from Spaceport America in the New Mexico desert, reaching a height of
