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Bezos, Child Space Nerd, Gets His Chance to Join the Astronaut Club
Even if the suborbital flight is a success, his Blue Origin will struggle to catch up with Musk’s SpaceX.
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Jeff Bezos’s trip past the edge of space will look very different than that of his putative rival, Richard Branson.
Earlier this month, Branson journeyed in the belly of a space plane, which was carried to high altitude by another aircraft and dropped into the air. Then it rocketed to 53.5 miles (86 km) above the Earth and afterwards glided down and landed conventionally, on a runway.