The billionaire space race: Tale of the tape

By Charles Hilu

Published July 2, 2021 6:00pm ET

The billionaire space race: Tale of the tape — This image provided by Virgin Galactic shows, from left: Chief Pilot Dave Mackay, Lead Operations Engineer Colin Bennett, Chief Astronaut Instructor Beth Moses, Founder of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson, Vice President of Government Affairs and Research Operations Sirisha Bandla and pilot Michael Masucci. (Virgin Galactic via AP)

Forget Monaco. Space appears to be the new billionaires’ playground.

Richard Branson’s announcement that he will blast off into space on July 11 signaled that the new space race is now firmly a three-way dance involving the Virgin Galactic founder, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

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