Seventy-one-year-old Richard Branson went into space aboard his rocket ship on July 11 along with five crewmates beating out his rival Jeff Bezos. ... Branson became the first person to travel in his own spaceship, beating Jeff Bezos by nine days.

Did Virgin Galactic actually go into space?

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his team successfully flew to the “edge of space” on the Unity 22 mission aboard a Virgin Galactic plane on July 12. ... The definition of where space begins is very subjective. The Kármán line is a distance of 100km (62 miles), determined in 1957.

Who went up in space with Branson?

Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have now both gone to space. Here's the difference between their Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic flights. Two competing billionaires have launched successful trips to space in the race for commercial space travel.