So much money!
Branson's done it. Bezos is going to do it. Elon's doing it for sure, if only to find out where he parked his car. All the rich kids are heading to space — but where is that, exactly? How high to you have to go to actually get into the astronaut club? Emily and Chris go over the first Virgin Galactic fully-populated flight, and discuss where space may or may not begin — and what it means when really rich people decide they want to be astronauts.
Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.
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Things we discuss in this episode:
Branson goes to space
Bezos is going to space
The Kármán Line
Definitions of the edge of space