Branson may make a last-ditch effort to beat Bezos into space:
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said on Monday he would fly on the first human spaceflight of his company's New Shepard spacecraft. This mission will launch from Blue Origin's spaceport in West Texas on July 20, which is the anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing in 1969.
With this timeline, Bezos seemed almost certain to beat his suborbital space tourism rival, Sir Richard Branson, into space. Setting aside whether Branson's VSS Unity vehicle reaches space—its maximum altitude is just below the Kármán line, or 100 km—this is nonetheless a meaningful milestone.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 10 2021, @12:30AM
When the corporations show up and take the stage, it's game over man, game over...
The internet was an amazing new vista, a new frontier, for what, about a decade at best? Then, the corporations moved in and ruined everything, like they always do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va2K__8rV3o [youtube.com]