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    Spacemen three see fortune in the stars

    Jun 25, 2021 4 minutes
    By Richard Luscombe MIAMI

    This month, two space-faring billionaires have tussled again in their futuristic game of cosmic oneupmanship. And this time, for once, Elon Musk was not at the party.

    The declaration that Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and world’s richest man, was heading into space next month on the first crewed launch of his Blue Origin New Shepard rocket was followed quickly by an apparent leak from within Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic empire that the British tycoon might look to upstage him with a Fourth of July Independence Day spectacular of his own.

    Branson’s team was quick to downplay the possibility, insisting a date for his first spaceflight had yet to be determined. But

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