Global Challenges | A space race that leaves no one indifferent

Branson opens new era of tourist space travel 4:05

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This is a race where our blue sky is no longer the limit.

A tycoon space race that does not leave you indifferent.

They want to be remembered as those who managed to open a door to the future, to this 21st century in which we are.

But it is not easy.

Others question that so much money is spent in outer space when here, on our planet Earth, humanity still has so many urgent needs to deal with.

Listen to the new episode of

Global Challenges

with José Levy.

Greetings.

In this new CNN

Global Challenges

podcast

 we will address how three of the world's wealthiest arch-millionaires attempt to make their mark beyond our common limited horizon on planet Earth.

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And they do it now with these space races.

Without being - let's say - homologated in the Olympic Games, they are not something new.

These have been important races between the great powers for more than half a century.

To the point that the vocabulary becomes different.

When in Washington they speak of astronauts, in Moscow they speak of cosmonauts.

And while the United States was the first country to land on the Moon, a feat that I personally as a child followed with true passion, the Soviet Union was once a pioneer in sending a first man into the cosmos.

What these so-called “space barons” are pursuing these days was already achieved more than sixty years ago by Yuri Gagarin, who was not a tycoon at all, but the son of a carpenter.

But this week the multifaceted businessman Richard Branson starred in the first attempt to start with a very very special tourism, space tourism.

Did Richard Branson really go into space?

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Aboard his ship, Virgin Galactic, he was able to move away from Earth up to 88 kilometers high, and reach the so-called suborbital space, at the edge of the atmosphere.

There, along with five other people, he was able to witness the spectacular circular arc of our planet's horizon and, at the same time, experience the sensation of flying in a state of weightlessness.

Branson was excited.

He said it was a magical moment.

He claimed that from once a child with a dream - gazing at the stars - he was now an adult in a spaceship.

An 18-year-old will travel to space with Jeff Bezos 0:47

According to him, his goal was to feel the experience to improve future trips since he would like the space to become the next great tourist destination.

For those interested, something like that would cost about a quarter of a million dollars ... per person.

And we are not talking about charter flights yet.

A real bargain.

Personally, I may have the opportunity to do some of my reports from space.

Well, I don't know ... but if you propose it to me ... who knows ... Of course, it may be less dangerous than certain land coverings ...

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