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Oct 9, 2018

Richard Branson says Virgin Galactic will be in space ‘within weeks, not months’

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‘We will be in space with people not too long after that’


“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 and CEO told CNBC on Tuesday.

“We will be in space with people not too long after that so we have got a very, very exciting couple of months ahead.”

The announcement comes amid a closely fought race between Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to get the first fare-paying passengers into space.

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