Richard Branson to Co-Pilot Space Perspective’s First Crewed Flight

Sir Richard Branson has signed on to be the co-pilot of Space Perspective’s first space balloon flight sometime next year, which could be the the 74-year-old billionaire adventurer’s eighth Guinness World Record. His accolades range from earning the fastest time to cross the Atlantic in a boat (1986) to being the oldest person to ever cross the English Channel while kite-surfing (2012).

Branson also has a love of long-distance ballooning, so the Space Perspective trip…