Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced the creation of the private space company Privateer. He posted such a publication on his Twitter page.
“A private space company is being created that is different from others,” wrote the co-founder of Apple.
The YouTube video description for the Privateer notes that the company was founded by Wozniak, along with Ripcord founder Alex Fielding. The company’s future plans will be presented at the AMOS Tech 2021 conference later this September.
On July 11, 2021, the first flight into space of the founder of Virgin Galactic, American businessman Richard Branson, took place. The spacecraft (rocket plane) Unity-22 (SpaceShipTwo) with a businessman on board was launched from the spaceport “America” in the state of New Mexico, the flight itself was an ascent to the 16-kilometer mark on the WhiteKnightTwo booster aircraft. The flight time is 2.5 hours, including 5-6 minutes in zero gravity.
On July 20 this year, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos went into space aboard the New Shepard reusable spacecraft. The capsule with Bezos and other crew members made a successful landing. In general, the flight lasted over 10 minutes. The spacecraft reached an altitude of more than 106 km – the lower limit of space.
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