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The billionaire space race is the intense rivalry in NewSpace by recent space entrepreneurs, who entered the space industry as billionaires from other industries, particularly computing.
This private industry space race of the 21st century involves sounding rockets to the ignorosphere (mesosphere and thermosphere), orbital launch rockets, and suborbital tourist spaceflights.
Among the billionaires entering into New Space, are
- dotcom Russian billionarie Yuri Milner, backing the Breakthrough Starshot project for an interstellar probe.[5]
- internet South-African-Canadian-American billionaire Elon Musk,[3][8] behind SpaceX and a project to colonize Mars[4][1]
- e-Commerce American billionaire Jeff Bezos,[8] behind Blue Origin and establishing a true industrial base in space[4][8][2][1]
- software American billionaire Paul G. Allen,[3][8] behind Vulcan Aerospace and reducing the cost to launch payload to orbit[4][5]
- mogul British billionaire Richard Branson,[3][8] behind Virgin Galactic; and space tourism, low cost small orbital launchers, and intercontinental suborbital transit[4][8][2][1]
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