RICHARD Branson is close to launching his first mission into space under his Virgin Galactic enterprise, with lift-off scheduled “within weeks”.
US media report the human headline is preparing for his own trip into space within coming months and has been undergoing astronaut inductions including fitness and centrifuge training.
“We should be in space within weeks, not months, and then we will be in space with myself in months and not years,” the Virgin founder told CNBC.
“We will be in space with people not too long after that so we have got a very, very exciting couple of months ahead.”
Branson and his SpaceShipTwo have been in a close contest with the Blue Origin project mounted by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to provide the first suborbital space flights for paying tourists.
Source: traveldaily