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….