NEW YORK( BLOOMBERG)-The billionaires who blasted into space in recent weeks did so with style. Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos sported a cowboy hat after landing and Mr Richard Branson wore a blue Virgin Galactic jumpsuit he'd called" sexy".To some of the world's leading experts in space-travel safety, something else stood out: Neither company equipped the passengers of their spacecraft with pressure suits to protect them from a rapid decompression outside Earth's atmosphere. Such suits are required b

( Reuters)-The fourth commercial flight of Jeff Bezos' space tourism venture Blue Origin, offering short suborbital joyrides to well-heeled thrill-seekers and celebrity guests, was due for liftoff on Tuesday from the company's launch site in rural west Texas. Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft was slated for launch at 8: 30 a.m. CDT( 1330 GMT) with six would-be citizen astronauts strapped into the crew cabin atop the fully autonomous launch vehicle, standing nearly six stories tall, outside Va

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