Words Markus Bidaux
WATCH THIS SPACE
Between 2001 and 2009, seven extremely wealthy “tourists” visited the International Space Station (ISS) but in the past decade only professional astronauts have gone into space. That looks set to change this year with Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX all making cosmic waves. This trio of billionaires are battling each other to commercialise space travel.