Richard Branson made history a few days ago by becoming the first billionaire in space. Now, famous astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson has come out expressing doubts if we can call where Branson flew as space. A prodigy of legendary space scientist Carl Sagar, deGrasse Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York. In a recent interview with CNN, deGrasse Tyson stated that Richard Branson did not to space. As per this scale, Richard Branson went up till around 2 mm from the surface.

Source: dna July 14, 2021 10:17 UTC