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The battle of the space billionaires heats up as Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin reveals it is aiming for a manned launch... ...in 2018. The battle of the billionaires between Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson looks set to finally blast its first passengers into space next year. Speaking at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference in Colorado, Jeff Ashby, a former NASA astronaut who is director of safety and mission assurance for Jeff Bezos' space firm Blue Origin, said the firm is now 'a year out' from human flights. It comes as Richard Branson claimed in October he will travel to space on his Virgin Galactic craft within six months. Elon Musk is also expected to soon reveal the launch schedule for a manned version of his Dragon capsule that will ferry astronauts to the International Space station under a NASA contract next year.
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I'll watch y'all take off...from a safe distance. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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The spirit is more than willing but my body wouldn't cooperate. | |
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Bunch of fools | |
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