What counts as a journey into space?

ON JUNE 7TH Jeff Bezos, the owner of Blue Origin, a rocket maker, announced that on July 20th he would be one of the first people to ride into space in the, the company’s reusable space capsule. Mr Bezos, who is in the process of stepping down as CEO of Amazon, a retailer, will thus become the first of the billionaires currently building spaceflight businesses to enter the realm himself.

But this 100km definition is not universally accepted. America’s air force treats 50 miles as the edge of space, a definition which allowed it to give astronaut wings to five pilots of its X-15 experimental rocket plane in the 1960s. Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard who takes a keen interest in spaceflight, has calculated that, in practice, the von Kármán line is closer to 80km than 100km, and that this might be the more defensible definition.

Another DUMB billionaire Who will go down with the ship

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As inspirational as Elon?

Worlds richest man can’t get it up (into space).

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