Space travel

The billionaire Jeff Bezos flew into space with his rocket "New Shepard" today. The starting shot for space tourism lasted eleven minutes.

They own billions and put their money into private space travel instead of solving problems on earth: Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson. Now Bezos is responding to the critics.

Actually, next to Jeff Bezos, a person who paid $ 28 million for the ticket was supposed to fly into space. But she now has "scheduling problems".

Richard Branson is about to fulfill his childhood dream: The billionaire wants to fly into space on Sunday. You can read what it's about and how the flight is going in the news ticker.

Two billionaires want to fly into space within a few days, but there is no such thing as a “space race”. At least that is what Richard Branson claims - who is ahead of the curve.

Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with the help of his company SpaceX. However, a German author could have made this promise much earlier.

For the first time, Chinese astronauts have disembarked from their "Tiangong" space station, which is under construction. On Sunday, Chinese state television showed astronauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo leaving the station in their spacesuits.

He has often looked at the earth from space: the astronaut Alexander Gerst has serious concerns about our planet.