Billionaire Richard Branson wants to go into space before Bezos

British billionaire Richard Branson plans to fly into space on July 11th with the help of his space company Virgin Galactic. The company has now announced the date for the planned "Unity 22" mission. "I've always been a dreamer," wrote Branson on Twitter. His mother taught him never to give up and reach for the stars. Now is the time to make that dream come true. If July 11 remains the starting date, Branson Amazon founder Jeff Bezos would anticipate nine days. Blue Origin, Bezos' space company, announced in May a manned flight with the New Shepard rocket for July 20th. The richest person in the world wants to take his brother and an 82-year-old former US pilot on their maiden flight into space. A few weeks ago, another seat was auctioned for $ 28 million to a previously unknown person. In May, Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity spaceplane completed a manned space test flight with two pilots. The capsule was launched on board a carrier aircraft from the commercial spaceport Spaceport America in the US state of New Mexico. The mother ship dropped off the "VSS Unity" at a height of almost 14 kilometers. The space capsule then accelerated with its own rocket engine and continued the flight briefly. It reached an altitude of 89.2 kilometers, as Virgin Galactic announced. The International Aviation Association and many other experts see 100 kilometers above the earth as the limit to space. However, there is no binding international regulation. For example, soldiers in the US Air Force received the designation astronaut, even though they had only flown to an altitude of 50 miles (80.5 kilometers). For comparison: the International Space Station ISS flies 400 kilometers above the earth's surface.