On July 11, the founder of Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson, along with two pilots and three more of his closest companions, will go on a rocket-powered aircraft of their own production VSS Unity on a suborbital flight 9 days earlier than another billionaire Jeff Bezos plans to do on the device of his company Blue Origin called New Shepard.
Both flights are designed to demonstrate both the prospects of private companies ' developments in the field of near-space exploration and the development of near-space tourism. Tickets for some routes are expected to cost from 250 to 500 thousand dollars.
