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Billionaires in space: Do they need to read the room? Jennifer Graham © Photo Illustration by Alex Cochran
Ronald Reagan helped a nation grieve when he eulogized the space shuttle Challenger astronauts, saying they “slipped the surly bonds of Earth” to “touch the face of God.”
Reagan was quoting a poem by John Gillespie Magee that beautifully describes the experience of flight. But as Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson ascend to heights unavailable to ordinary people of lesser means, there’s less poetry and more surliness about what they’re doing up there.
“Leave the billionaires in space,” grumbled writer Paris Marx in the U.K.’s Tribune magazine. “Really, billionaires? This is what you’re going to do with your unprecedented fortunes and influence? Drag race to outer space?” comedian Seth Myers ranted. More than 150,000 people have signed an online petition that says “Do not allow Jeff Bezos to return to Earth.”