How the "Billionaire" Space Race Will Affect You

<p><strong>What Does the "Billionaire" Space Race Mean to You?</strong></p> <p>We have Sir Richard Branson up in space.  The race of the billionaires, Jeff Bezos, of course being another one. What does this mean to us? Does this mean that space is solely for the rich? Is it going to help our businesses, our economy, what's behind all of this, and where are we going? That's exactly what I discussed this morning with Mr. Christopher Ryan. Let's find out how it's going to affect you and me.</p> <p>[00:00:29] <strong>Chris Ryan:</strong> Yeah, Richard Branson is in the news day, Sir Richard Branson to you, Craig, as he reached the outer space and was able to bring individuals up there and do in your view, is this going to be a thing where commercial space travel is going to be something that we see and have access to. No average Americans.</p> <p>[00:00:52] To me, I feel like it's taken decades for even this type of space flight to take place. And I feel we are still so far away from an average Joe, like you, or I will be able to afford to go into. The areas almost to outer space.</p> <p>[00:01:12] <strong>Craig Peterson (2):</strong> [00:01:12] Yeah, the black-blue yonder, as it were.  First of all, let's get something straight here. Sir Richard Branson made it almost into space, correct? They were 80 kilometers out. A hundred is generally considered. But where we're headed here is not really getting into space, which I think is totally cool. Where we're headed is being able to get up to those sorts of altitudes and then travel around the world.</p> <p>[00:01:39] So we could see a trip from Boston to Tokyo taking just a few hours, rather than thinking the better part of a day.</p> <p>[00:01:48] <strong>Chris Ryan:</strong> [00:01:48] Yeah. And very often, when we see these types of things, I mentioned this earlier, it leads to thoughts of what else is possible. And you may look at this and be like, oh, okay, it's these fancy-free billionaires trying to say they wanted outer space when they're actually, in the.</p> <