Paddy Power makes Virgin Galactic favourites to win commercial space race

After Sir Richard Branson said that Virgin Galactic will reach space in “weeks not months”, Paddy Power made Virgin favourites (1/3) to beat Musk’s SpaceX and Bezos’s Blue Origin into space.

And he’s an even shorter price to travel to space first himself (1/5) ahead of Musk (6/1).

While Donald Trump is leading the way in the ‘first world leader to visit space’ market (Evens), where he could again renew his rivalry with Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin.

Spokesman Paddy Power said: “As a bookmaker, we’re well used to pricing up races all over the place – but the Space Race is a bit different.

“Right now, though, it’s ramping up – and some famous jockeys are battling to be first past the post. Sir Richard Branson is the starting price favourite, in what would be another high-profile defeat for Elon Musk.”

FIRST TO SEND COMMERCIAL PASSENGERS TO SPACE
1/3 Virgin Galactic
4/1 SpaceX
6/1 Blue Origin

FIRST TO TRAVEL TO SPACE
1/5 Sir Richard Branson
6/1 Elon Musk
12/1 Jeff Bezos

FIRST WORLD LEADER TO VISIT SPACE
Evens Donald Trump
3/1 Kim Jong-un
5/1 Vladimir Putin
33/1 Leo Varadkar
50/1 Theresa May
66/1 Angela Merkel
66/1 Justin Trudeau
80/1 Xi Jinping
100/1 Moon Jae-in
125/1 Donald Tusk
500/1 The Queen