DIDI - Wall Street Breakfast: Blastoff!

Listen on the go! A daily podcast of Wall Street Breakfast will be available by 8:00 a.m. on Seeking Alpha, iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify. Blastoff!The next leg of the billionaire space race commences this weekend, with Sir Richard Branson journeying to the edge of space in Virgin Galactic's (NYSE:SPCE) VSS Unity spaceplane. The flight on Sunday will come just nine days before Jeff Bezos is scheduled to blast into the thermosphere and the rivalry is quickly turning into a cold war. Branson has denied the scheduling was a contest to see who would go up first, while Blue Origin (BORGN) has said the two companies aren't even after the same prize. "We wish him a great and safe flight, but they're not flying above the Karman line and it's a very different experience," CEO Bob Smith told the NYT.Note: The Karman line is the unofficial altitude at which space begins,

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Wall Street Breakfast: Blastoff!