Why SpaceX won the "space travel" war

The space tourism businessSLOTXOwar between the world's three billionaires "Elon Musk" Tesla CEO. SpaceX founder (SpaceX) Jeff Bezos, founder of e-commerce platform "Amazon", founder of space travel company "Blue Origin" (Blue Origin), and Ri Shard Branson, founder of space travel company Virgin Galactic. has been very aggressive during this period

In early July, Richard Branson traveled to low Earth orbit aboard the company's self-developed VSS Unity rocket. Along with the experience of "weightlessness" before flying to the ground successfully.

A few days later, "Jeff Bezos" successfully flew into space on a rocket "New Shepherd", traveling 80 kilometers above sea level. before landing safely on Earth as well

meanwhile Four amateur astronauts are led by billionaire American businessman and pilot Jared Isaacman. The founder and CEO of "Shift Objects" flew into Earth orbit on the "Inspire 4" mission aboard the "SpaceX" capsule spacecraft. on Earth's orbit for up to three days before crashing into the Atlantic Ocean.

And most recently, on October 13, "Blue Origin" organized a second trip with two paying customers, one of them "William Shatner", a 90-year-old Canadian actor who played Captain Kirk. " In the hit series Star Trek, was flying with him.

CNBC reports that while the three billionaires compete fiercely in the space tourism business, Elon Musk's "SpaceX" is the big leader in space travel, followed by Jay "Blue Origin" "Virgin Galactic". Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson's End Space Travel Battle

The reason Virgin Galactic lags behind its competitors Because the company has announced that space flights will be postponed 8-10 months from the original scheduled flights by the end of this year. This means that Virgin Galactic will not offer space tourism to the general public. until the end of next year

Trust Financial Bank analyst Michael Chiarmoli said the delay in Virgin Galactic's space flight was a loss of momentum for the business. Especially after rivals SpaceX and Blue Origin have been successful. in moving forward the business in the past few months. It is considered a business that can generate income.

News reports say that although Virgin Galactic was able to fly passengers into space nine days before Blue Origin last July, Blue Origin has flown, with one more passenger flight in space. One more passenger flight is planned later this year and three more next year.

While 600 customers booking space trips with Virgin Galactic have to wait indefinitely.