{"id":137892,"date":"2022-04-09T06:25:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T11:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/richard-branson-could-be-the-first-billionaire-to-fly-on-elon-musks-starship"},"modified":"2022-04-09T06:25:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T11:25:30","slug":"richard-branson-could-be-the-first-billionaire-to-fly-on-elon-musks-starship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/richard-branson-could-be-the-first-billionaire-to-fly-on-elon-musks-starship","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson could be the first billionaire to fly on Elon Musk\u2019s Starship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Yui6C8ZFZ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It would signify new levels of space baron cooperation. It\u2019s no secret that Richard Branson is a big fan of SpaceX.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that Richard Branson is a big fan of SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>And, as a fellow space baron to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, it\u2019s hard to blame him \u2014 since Musk\u2019s aerospace firm is edging closer to attempting its first orbital flight with a fully stacked Starship vehicle \u2014 and a launch date fast approaching. This will be a huge step for Musk\u2019s ambitions to build, operate, and land a new spaceship on the surface of Mars, putting humans on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>Much testing is needed before the big jump can happen. And, having bested Jeff Bezos in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/blue-origins-lawsuit-against-nasa-was-just-struck-down\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/blue-origins-lawsuit-against-nasa-was-just-struck-down\">repeatedly contested contracts with NASA<\/a> to build the Human Landing System for the Artemis program, Musk has assumed a rapidly widening lead ahead of his two space baron rivals, Blue Origin CEO Bezos and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would signify new levels of space baron cooperation. It\u2019s no secret that Richard Branson is a big fan of SpaceX. It\u2019s no secret that Richard Branson is a big fan of SpaceX. And, as a fellow space baron to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, it\u2019s hard to blame him \u2014 since Musk\u2019s aerospace firm is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}