The suborbital tourist flight, which will be made up of six people aboard the New Shepard spacecraft, will take place on July 20 of this year.
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May
7, 2021
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The race to conquer space continues, some companies want to give us a tour of space while others want to take us as tourists to Mars. Blue Origin , the space company founded by Jeff Bezos , announced the date of their first tourist trip to the outskirts of our planet and also reported that they will auction a ticket.
This Wednesday, May 5, the company announced that its suborbital tourist flight, which will be made up of six people aboard the New Shepard spacecraft, will take place on July 20 of this year, according to Reuters .
In addition, Bezos’ company will offer a ticket to the highest bidder in a five-week online auction, the proceeds of which will be donated to the Blue Origin foundation, Club For The Future .
In this way, from May 5 to 19, interested parties will be able to enter the official page of the space firm to register and make their first offer, it is important to mention that people must meet certain requirements such as security deposits for their offers.
Although the space brand has not revealed the prices of these types of flights, many sites estimate that the tickets could cost half a million dollars, on the other hand, Reuters would have revealed in 2018 that the seats would cost approximately 200 thousand Dollars.
On June 12, the winner of this auction will be announced at a public event. The flight will reach a height of 100 kilometers, which are enough to observe the curvature of our planet and feel the effects of zero gravity, it will also last 11 minutes.
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