Sir Richard Branson (left) has thanked Elon Musk (right) for being ‘typically supportive’ as the Virgin Galactic boss counts down the hours to becoming world’s first billionaire to blast into space on Sunday’s historic flight
Sir Richard Branson has thanked Elon Musk for being ‘typically supportive’ as the Virgin Galactic boss counts down the hours to becoming the world’s first billionaire to blast into space on Sunday’s historic flight.
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BARTY BREAKS… AGAIN! Barty* 5-1 Pliskova
For the first time this afternoon, we’re starting to see a bit of the Plsikova serve. She forces 30-15 but two more errors lead to another break point for Barty.
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Sir Richard Branson will fly to the edge of space on a spaceplane built by his own company on Sunday, declaring it is ‘time to turn my dream into reality,’ as he takes to the stars nine days before rival Jeff Bezos.
Branson is Astronaut 001 and will travel with Chief Astronaut Beth Moses (Astronaut 002), Lead Operations Engineer Colin Bennett (Astronaut 003) and VP of Government Affairs Sirisha Bandla (Astronaut 004) in the cabin.
Branson, one of six Virgin Galactic Holding Inc employees strapping in for the ride, has touted the flight as a precursor to a new era of space tourism, with the company he founded poised to begin commercial operations next year.
Sir Richard Branson has said he is feeling ‘good’ and ‘excited’ ahead of his record-breaking flight his Virgin Galactic which will see him soar more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert to become the first billionaire to leave earth in a rocket ship today.
Sir Richard soon posted a light-hearted reply that read: ‘Thanks for being so typically supportive and such a good friend, Elon. Great to be opening up space for If you enjoyed this post and you would certainly like to obtain even more facts pertaining to Blog topic Ideas kindly visit the website. all – safe travels and see you at Spaceport America!’
The group have all said that they were inspired by the first moon landing in 1969, when the US beat the Soviet Union in the space race, and had previously said how much it would mean for each to win the ‘new space race’.
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Branson will pose for photographs with the other five passengers before the journey which Branson told the Sunday Times was his ‘Star Trek moment’ after being inspired by the franchise as a child, even deliberately designing their uniforms to resemble those worn in the series.
The British billionaire will launch on the first of the three test flights carrying a full complement of ‘astronauts’ in the cabin, before they begin flying the first of 600 ‘future astronaut’ ticket holders in 2022.
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Barty* 6-3 6-7 4-2 Pliskova
Pliskova holds really well. You can sense Barty is not putting too much effort into the Czech’s service games and why should she? She’s nearly there…
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Virgin Galactic founder, Sir Richard Branson, moved his trip to space to an earlier test flight after Jeff Bezos announced he was going up, but claims no rivalry, saying ‘we both wished each other well’
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Branson denied that he and Bezos were in a ‘battle of the billionaire space founders’ to see who would go up first, despite changing from the second to the first VSS Unity test flight in order to go up before Bezos.
14:23
PLSIKOVA BREAKS! Barty 4-1 Pliskova *
An incredible miss from Barty at the net shows the first signs of weakness from the top seed. That sets up 0-30 and a flicker of hope for Pliskova to save this set.
The billionaire entrepreneur told the Times the view alone will be worth the billion pounds he has spent on the project and added: ‘I think it’s one of the reasons that people want to become astronauts.
