Elon musk space travel dream is going to happen earlier than expected. Thanks to Richard Branson’s space travel success story. He is following in the footsteps of two other billionaire entrepreneurs, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, who have both made plans to travel to space. Musk has purchased a ticket with Virgin Galactic for a trip into space, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal. The $250,000 tickets are sold out for now, but it’s unclear where Musk sits on the waiting list.
Richard Branson space travel information
Richard Branson is an entrepreneur who has always been on the cutting edge of technology. So it’s no surprise that he would be the first to go in space. Virgin Galactic, which he founded in 2004, is a company that specializes in commercializing space travel and suborbital human-tourism flights. He has now successfully completed his latest and arguably the greatest adventure with Sunday’s brief flight to the end of space aboard his Virgin Galactic spacecraft SpaceShip Unity (SSU). Spaceship Unity took off from New Mexico’s Spaceport America at 08:40 AM MT (07:40 AM PT) attached to the underside of its carrier aircraft WhiteKnightTwo VMS Eve before separating for a solo flight.
When Richard Branson boarded SSU, he stepped into a beautifully designed cabin that looked more like an executive jet than a spaceship and then strapped himself in for the ride of his life. As it climbed to 50kft (15 m) after takeoff, Unity locked onto its target destination at the apogee altitude 101 km above Earth’s surface 60 miles up, where it would spend just over 15 minutes before gliding back down to land on a runway at Spaceport America situated adjacent to Upham’s Corner.
Virgin Galactic space travel future plans:
Virgin Galactic is the world’s first commercial spaceline to offer flights into space, where customers can experience true weightlessness and a view of Earth that exceeds even that from an orbiting television satellite or the International Space Station (ISS). It will be a while before Virgin Galactic pilots are permitted to fly SSU out beyond 100 km, but this latest milestone has taken them tantalizingly close enough for Branson – who at 60 years old became the world’s oldest astronaut ever to get his money’s worth in spectacular views as he gazed down on our home planet.
What is Elon Musk’s net worth?
Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and engineer who dropped out of Stanford University to pursue his dreams. He founded Tesla Motors in 2003, a company that specializes in electric vehicles. Currently, Elon also heads up SpaceX, which focuses on aerospace design and manufacturing. Musk has always been one for challenging the status quo, this can be seen with both companies he’s started being at the forefront of innovative technology fields. At the time of writing this article, Elon Musk net worth is 162.8 Billion USD.
