Jeff Bezos wins the billionaire space race: Amazon founder announces that he and his brother will fly to the edge of space next MONTH on a Blue Origin spacecraft, beating rivals Richard Branson and Elon Musk to the punch
Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark will fly on the Blue Origin New Shepard spacecraft on July 20 with four others
Blue Origin is offering one seat to the public through an online bid expected to raise over $2 million at auction
The six passengers will spend at least 10 minutes floating in zero gravity in space before return back to Earth
Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson is expected to launch for space later this year on a test flight
While Elon Musk’s SpaceX has already sent astronauts to the ISS and is sending a civilian crew into orbit, Musk has said he would like to go into space and eventually ‘die on Mars’ but not when it would happen
