Space tourism: Billionaires race to develop emerging industry

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The private space race is finally here, as one of the three billionaire businessmen is closer to his dream of taking tourists into orbit.

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, along with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, are competing head-to-head in the emerging space tourism business.

The success of these ventures could pave the way to making space tourism mainstream, at least for high-paying customers.

Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds reports on how we went from space travel to space tourism.

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