Jeff Bezos Is Ready to Cross a Cosmically Controversial Line
The billionaire is preparing to fly to space—but where does space actually begin?
Days after Richard Branson flew to space and back, Jeff Bezos is preparing for his turn.
The dueling space billionaires share a lifelong fascination with space travel and aspire to sell customers a few glorious minutes of weightlessness, high above Earth. But on one very basic point they disagree: Where does space begin?
Bezos’s Blue Origin is designed to take passengers to a higher altitude than Branson’s Virgin Galactic. Just before Branson’s flight , Blue Origin that it flies higher than Virgin Galactic, “so none of our astronauts have an asterisk next to their name”—suggesting that Virgin Galactic passengers don’t
