Reuters – A visit to outer space would be a once in a lifetime adventure for most people. But if all goes to plan over the next three years, a Singapore-based hedge fund executive will blast off not once but twice.
Michael Blum, a German national, is booked on UK billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, which expects to launch its first commercial spacecraft in early 2013. He has also signed up with another firm, Space Expedition Curacao, that hopes to launch its first flight by 2014.