Millionaire Says He Waited Nearly 20 Years to Go to Space
After purchasing his ticket to outer space in 2004, business mogul and real estate millionaire Ken Baxter will be boarding a rocket to see the stars in early September.
“I wanted to be the first civilian to go on a [private] rocket to outer space,” Mr. Baxter, a Las Vegas resident, told The Epoch Times.
In the early 2000s, Mr. Baxter decided to fulfill his childhood dream of space travel when he paid $200,000 to Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson for a ticket aboard his future rocket, before making his fortune from his multiple Las Vegas-based real estate development firms, namely Apollo Realty and Investments and PMA Realty….