Three billionaire entrepreneurs - Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson - are each vying to usher in a new era of private commercial space travel . Musk has also said SpaceX will fly Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa around the moon with its forthcoming Starship rocket in 2023. Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket-and-capsule combo shoots into suborbital space before separating. The SpaceX Dragon capsule sits atop a reusable Falcon rocket which it uses to reach space. Blue Origin's capsule suborbital flight is around 10 minutes after separation.

Source: Mint July 06, 2021 23:15 UTC