Nine Days After Branson, Bezos and Blue Origin Take Flight

Last week we covered the first strike in the ‘Billionaire Space Race’, as Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic took flight and broke new ground in making him the first person to ever enter space aboard their own spacecraft and signaled ‘all systems go’ on his commercial space tourism operation. Rival billionaire Jeff Bezos was (relatively) gracious in his praise for Branson accomplishment, likely comforted…