Of the many little rocket men in the world, who is actually the greatest?

For a while, it looked like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was clearly ahead.

For his Blue Origin rocket coup, Bezos, who has been dreaming of space since watching the moon landing on TV as a child, chose July 20th (anniversary of the moon landing!).

The “guest of honor” of the richest man in the world will be Wally Funk, who is over eighty.

A generous gesture that tax evader Bezos commented on Twitter by saying that no one had waited longer than Wally Funk.

Melanie Mühl

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    Already in the sixties she went through astronaut training, which Funk finished as the best, but she was still not allowed to fly into space.

    The American space agency planned such adventures only for men at the time.

    Also on board the New Shepard rocket, besides Bezos' brother, will be a previously unknown guest who is said to have flipped $ 28 million for the short trip into weightlessness at the auction.

    So all in all a good thing.

    Until Sir Richard Branson, 71 years old and "also ran" on the Forbes list of the richest people, Bezos thwarted the bill. “I've always been a dreamer. My mother taught me never to give up and reach for the stars, ”tweeted Branson, whose Virgin Galactic rocket is scheduled to take off from New Mexico tomorrow, Sunday.

    Branson thinks: space belongs to all of us!

    However, he deliberately suppresses this, all is not all equal.

    A rocket has to cover a hundred kilometers, because according to the definition of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), this is the height at which the boundary to space - the so-called Kármán line - is.

    The less strict NASA says: Eighty kilometers are enough.

    That would mean Branson, whose rocket can still cover ninety kilometers, the astronaut badge.

    Bezos, however, advertises that the tourists in his rocket would be shot up to 106 kilometers in the future so that they would definitely get the coveted badge.

    It would also be annoying to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars and then forego official proof of space conquest.

    And Elon Musk? The founder of the space company SpaceX is likely to wearily smile at the rocket men Bezos and Branson and do what he likes to do best: scare the stock markets troubled by inflation and delta fears with his tweets. His Falcon-9 rocket has already carried astronauts to the International Space Station. Musk's personal Kármán line is the moon he plans to circumnavigate with tourists on board in 2023. Only one thing is missing, in a sense the father of all little rocket men: Where is Korea's Kim Jong-un?