“世界那么大，我想去看看”升级版：维珍富豪老大准备游太空

Richard Branson, the 67-year-old British entrepreneur, says he’s in a closely-fought race with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to get the first fare-paying passengers into space.

现年67岁的英国企业家理查德-布兰森说，他正在与亚马逊首席执行官杰夫-贝佐斯进行一场激烈的竞争，争取帮助第一批付费乘客进入太空。

Speaking to the BBC’s "You and Yours" radio show, he said that TeslaCEO Elon Musk is doing "fantastically well" with rocket development and space transport for cargo. But, he added that ultimately the commercial space race was between himself and Bezos.

在BBC的“你和你的”电台节目上，他说特斯拉CEO 伊隆-马斯克在火箭发展和货运航天运输方面做得“非常好”。但是，他补充说，最终的商业太空竞赛是在他和贝佐斯之间。

"I think we’re both neck and neck as to who will put people into space first," Branson told the British broadcaster in an interview to be aired Monday.

布兰森在接受采访时告诉BBC下周一将播出的节目：“我觉得我们在谁将首先把人送上太空的较量上是不相上下的。”

"Ultimately, we have to do it safely. It’s more a race with ourselves to make sure we have the craft that are safe to put people up there."

“最终，我们必须做到安全这一点，这更像是与我们自己的比赛，确保我们能够有安全的载人航天器。”

The serial entrepreneur, who owns the commercial space flight company Virgin Galactic, has invested in space travel since 2004 and was initially expected to go to space himself before April of this year.

这位拥有商业太空飞行公司“维珍银河”的连续创业者自2004年以来一直在进行太空旅行投资，最初预计他自己将在今年4月份之前进入太空。

Giving an update on his progress to the BBC, he said that there were "exciting times ahead" and his first trip to space would be "months away, not years away."

他向BBC汇报了他的进展，他说有一些“令人兴奋的时刻”，他的第一次太空之旅将是“数月之遥，而不是几年之遥”。

"I’m going for astronaut training; I’m going for fitness training, centrifuge and other training, so that my body will hopefully cope well when I go to space," he said.

“我要去接受宇航员培训，我正在进行健身训练，离心机和其他训练，这样当我进入太空时，我的身体能够很好地应付，”他说。