Richard Branson reflected on his friendship with fellow billionaire and space entrepreneur, saying the SpaceX CEO once surprised him at his house in the middle of the night.
Sir Richard Branson briefly flew into space aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel in July 2021.
"There’s a big difference that the public doesn’t quite appreciate between orbital and sub-orbital space flight," Musk told the newspaper 12 years ago. "To do an orbital space flight you need to have a terminal velocity of 25 times the speed of sound — Mach 25. Whereas sub-orbital you can get away with a terminal velocity of Mach 3."
He added at the time, "What Branson’s doing is cool. It’s great and I’ve actually bought a ticket. I’ve been asking for a date. I’m not sure when exactly but I intend to fly on this thing." Elon Musk has said he would personally like to go into suborbital space aboard one of Richard's Branson's vessel's because SpaceX is focused on orbital space.Musk, who is the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter, has yet to fly.
"Elon is tremendously smart and even more driven," Branson told the Times. "I admire his talent and his willingness to take calculated risks. He has been inches from failure on many, many occasions and kept pushing. He’s the Henry Ford of his generation."
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