Elon Musk has bought a ticket for a spaceflight on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, per The Sunday Times.
On Sunday, Branson became the first of the trio of renowned billionaire tech company founders - including Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos - to take of on a flight to space.
According to the above publication, rival Musk, founder of SpaceX, has put down $10,000 as a deposit to reserve a seat on one of the Virgin Galactic flights. The date for his spaceflight is not yet known.
"Elon’s a friend and maybe I’ll travel on one of his ships one day," Branson told the paper.
While SpaceX has launched multiple rockets, with some of them having been manned flights, Musk was never a passenger, the Independent reports. The firm is set to launch its first entirely private spaceflight in the fall.
Bezos, on the other hand, hopes to travel to space in a rocket through his own company Blue Origin on July 20, according to the paper.
Virgin Galactic flights entail four minutes of being in zero gravity and affluent tourists are expected to shell out an eye-watering $250,000 for a ticket.
Blue Origin reportedly claimed that Branson's trip on Sunday doesn't count as a spaceflight, as he didn't make it past the Kármán line which is typically considered the boundary of space.
The company's space aircraft Unity reached a height of approximately 55 miles before it came back down to Earth.
The trip was supposed to test the space tourism journeys that the Virgin founder hopes to start offering next year.
"I’ve had my notebook with me and I’ve written down 30 or 40 little things that will make the experience for the next person who goes to space with us that much better," he said, according to the Independent.
"The only way sometimes you can find these little things is to get in a spaceship and go to space and experience it for yourself."
Branson, who turns 71 in less than a week, is currently the second septuagenarian to travel to space. American astronaut John Glenn reached space via the Space Shuttle Discovery when he was 77 back in 1998.
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