Does Jeff Bezos' space trip mean arrival of commercial space travel?

Update: 2021-07-20

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US billionaire Jeff Bezos has successfully made it into space and back in a crewed flight of his company Blue Origin. How is this trip different from the recent one made by Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson? Will space travel be a game only for the rich? Dr. Zhang Fan, Associate Professor with Beijing Normal University's Astronomy Department, offers his analysis.

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