Next month, Blue Origin, owned by the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, is preparing to launch its first space flight.
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An unknown person paid $ 28 million at the auction, for a place with Bezos and his brother. The company Virgin Galactic, which is doing the last tests, also entered the race.
Blue Origin, owned by businessman Jeff Bezos, is about to usher in the era of space tourism. On July 20, the date of the 52nd anniversary of the first landing, it will send its own capsule with … tourists into space.
He paid $ 28 million to an anonymous volunteer for a seat aboard the NS-17 capsule – alongside the world’s richest man and his brother, Mark Bezos.
In total, there will be four space tourists in capsula Blue Origin. The flight will be a suborbital one, and the rocket will reach 100 kilometers altitude, which will give passengers about 3 minutes of weightlessness.
On the other hand, the Virgin Intergalactic company, owned by billionaire Richard Branson, has already found a bold slogan: “The first commercial space company.”
“I want to emphasize that so far we have sent seven people into space and trained five new astronauts. I was the first space company to send people there. But, to be honest, I don’t see any race ” said Branson.
Branson congratulated Bezos on Twitter for his space plans. Virgin Intergalactic is only in the final testing phase and has not set an official date for the launch of its own shuttle.
Branson’s company failed in 2014, when a co-pilot died during a test flight with an older shuttle model.
Even so, Virgin Galactic has sold over 600 tickets in advance for more than $ 200,000 each, for those who want to see Earth from space.
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