In July, Blue Origin also swiped at Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. and its billionaire founder Richard Branson, only days before he beat Bezos to space in a suborbital flight. Blue Origin argued that Virgin’s space-tourism vehicle didn’t fly above the “internationally recognized” Karman line space boundary at 100 km (62 miles) and that its cabin windows were smaller than Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
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