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Billionaires in space: The launch of a dream or just out-of-this-world ego? Roxanne Roberts, The Washington Post July 18, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The Falcon Heavy by SpaceX launching at Cape Canaveral, FloridaDave Williams/Getty Images The last time we watched rich boys and their toys going mano a mano was back in the aughts, when Microsoft s Paul Allen and Oracle s Larry Ellison tussled over who had the biggest private yacht in the world. After Allen commissioned his 416-foot superyacht Octopus, Ellison added an extension to his Rising Sun, bringing it to 452 feet in length. Size matters. Now the billionaire battle is for space, albeit short, suborbital flights. Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, announced he would fly in his Blue Origin s New Shepard spacecraft on July 20. Then Richard Branson decided that he would take an hour-long jaunt on his Virgin Galactic VSS Unity space plane nine days earlier. He came, he floated in zero gravity, he conquered.

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