After the founder of Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson, it’s up to his colleague-rival Jeff Bezos to be a tourist in space. The founder of Blue Origin and Amazon is ready to fly on July 20, a symbolic date because on that day, 52 years ago (with the Apollo 11 mission in 1969) man arrived on the moon. On the New Shepard shuttle along with former Amazon CEO, his brother Mark Bezos and 82-year-old Wally Funk (the oldest person ever to space), also the youngest astronaut in history, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen. The boy took over from the anonymous billionaire who paid $ 28 million at auction to win the trip but then gave up. At that point, he took over Daemen who with 27 million the first paying customer of a Blue Origin space flight.
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The challenge between billionaires
Jeff Bezos was anticipated in this race for space tourism by another billionaire, Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic. Both at the forefront of their missions, having decided and Jeff to lead their respective Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. The third multi-billionaire who focuses on space tourism Elon Musk: the first tourist launch of his Space X scheduled for the end of 2021. With Blue Origin, a rocket takes off vertically and the capsule with the passengers inside detaches in flight until it reaches a height of 100 kilometers, before falling back to Earth held back by three parachutes. Virgin Galactic, on the other hand, uses a huge transport plane, which takes off from a conventional runway, then drops a craft similar to a large private jet at high altitude.. It starts its engine until it reaches an altitude of over 80 kilometers, then glides down again. Either way, up to six passengers can detach from their seats to float in weightlessness and admire the curvature of the Earth.
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