Richard Branson went into near space and few people cared – reactions to send him into orbit

Richard Branson was even more pleased with himself than usual this week when he blasted into ‘near space’.

The billionaire Virgin founder travelled 53 miles above the Earth in his Virgin Galactic rocket plane, good for him, we suppose.

He appears to be leaving a space race against Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, leaving many to wish they would race to end global poverty.

It is worth reading this FT piece titled “Branson, Bezos and the pointless billionaire space race. Their money would be better spent saving this planet rather than gazing at it from afar.”

Here he is if you are really bothered.

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He probably thought he would be heralded as some kind of legendary adventurer, but those on social didn’t seem to share his enthusiasm, to say the least.

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