Bezos’s Blue Origin Mocks Branson Rocket as High-Altitude Plane

Two billionaires are poised to fly to the edge of space this month, and the sniping is getting worse.

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin dismissed Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc.’s rocket-powered spacecraft as nothing more than a “high altitude airplane.” The vehicle won’t even break a widely recognized boundary of where space begins when it carries Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson aloft on Sunday, Blue Origin said Friday in a tweet.