Their families were waiting near the scene of Wednesday night's launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. When the capsule's hatch was opened on the recovery ship, health care worker Hayley Arceneaux was the first one out, flashing a big smile and thumbs up.
Within a few minutes, a pair of SpaceX boats pulled up alongside the bobbing capsule. SpaceX’s two previous crew splashdowns - carrying astronauts for NASA - were in the Gulf of Mexico. The four streaked back through the atmosphere early Saturday evening, the first space travelers to end their flight in the Atlantic since Apollo 9 in 1969. Surpassing the International Space Station by 100 miles (160 kilometers), the passengers savored views of Earth through a big bubble-shaped window added to the top of the capsule. SpaceX’s fully automated Dragon capsule reached an unusually high altitude of 363 miles (585 kilometers) after Wednesday night’s liftoff. just getting started,” replied trip sponsor Jared Isaacman, referring to the growing number of private flights on the horizon. “Your mission has shown the world that space is for all of us,” SpaceX Mission Control radioed. Please note: This content carries a strict local market embargo.The billionaire who paid undisclosed millions for the trip and his three guests wanted to show that ordinary people could blast into orbit by themselves, and SpaceX founder Elon Musk took them on as the company’s first rocket-riding tourists. U.S., 927, US$3.709 trillion China, 410, US$1.303 trillion Germany, 174, US$515 billion Russia, 120, US$397 billion U.K., 119, US$225 billion Hong Kong, 111, US$282 billion Switzerland, 107, US$318 billion India, 104, US$316 billion Saudia Arabia, 64, US$144 billion France, 64, US$238 billion Italy, 60, US$169 billion Brazil, 53, US$151 billion Canada 53, US$100 billion United Arab Emirates, 50, US$151 billion Singapore, 50, US$86 billion Wealth-X lists Hong Kong as a semi-autonomous, special administrative region of China.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon, US$201.2 billion Elon Musk, Tesla, US$181.1 billion Bernard Arnault, Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, US$154.4 billion Bill Gates, Bill and Melina Gates Foundation, US$142.4 billion Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, US$137.4 billion, Facebook Here’s a breakdown of the top 15 countries ranked by billionaire population and their combined wealth. These are the top five billionaires by net worth as listed by Wealth-X:
Seven of the top 15 billionaires in the world made their fortunes in the technology sector. The share of wealth held by billionaires among the UHNW class, which is defined as those with a net worth of US$30 million or more, has also increased to 28 per cent, despite billionaires making up just one per cent of the UHNW population. The combined wealth of this group is now approximately US$10 trillion. In its latest billionaire census, Wealth-X, an ultra-high net worth (UHNW) data company, stated the number of billionaires in the world surpassed 3,000 (up to 3,204) for the first time in 2020, after an additional 670 individuals entered the billionaire class. The combined wealth of Canadian billionaires also tops US$100 billion, an increase of 4.5 per cent from last year.