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No Pressure Suits? Bezos, Branson Spark Alarm Over Safety in Space
- Calls for regulating commercial space travel are growing
- Industry says it’s in ‘learning period’ to boost innovation
The billionaires who blasted into space in recent weeks did so with style. Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos sported a cowboy hat after landing and Richard Branson wore a blue Virgin Galactic jumpsuit he’d called “sexy.”
To some of the world’s leading experts in space-travel safety, something else stood out: Neither company equipped the passengers of their spacecraft with pressure suits to protect them from a rapid decompression outside Earth’s atmosphere.