Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Ready To Go To Space On July 20 How Much Would A Trip Cost?

Jeff Bezos’s company reported that everything is ready for the first space tourism trip on his New Shepard ship; the first ticket will be put up for auction online

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The excitement of a new adventure begins to spread rapidly because Blue Origin, the space company of billionaire Jeff Bezos, started the sale of tickets to make the first trip to space on his New Shepard ship .

The company communicated than the first ticket for the next trip 20 July will be auctioned to the public: “We are offering a seat at this first flight to the winning bidder of the Blue Origin online auction. Starting today, anyone can place an opening offer on BlueOrigin.com ”.

Those interested in acquiring the first ticket must participate in a three-phase auction :

From May 5 to 9 the site will be open to online offers (amounts will not be visible).

On 19 May offers will be open, and participants must exceed the highest offer to continue participating.

Finally the 12 June will take conduct a live auction to find out the winner .

“The amount of the winning bid will be donated to the Blue Origin foundation, Club for the Future, to inspire future generations to pursue careers linked to space development,” Bezos’s company reported.

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At the moment it has not been disclosed how to buy the rest of the tickets or their cost, which remains a well-kept secret by Blue Origin for years.

However, Reuters information released in 2018, noted that Bezos’s company planned to charge passengers at least $ 100, 000 dollars per trip , based on an assessment of rival plans for Virgin Galactic by businessman Richard Branson.

In that same year u An employee of Blue Origin involved in the matter, said that the price of tickets would range from $ 100, 000 and $ 550, 000 Dollars.

On July 22 th, # NewShepard will fly its first astronaut crew to space. We are offering one seat on this first flight to the winning bidder of an online auction. Anyone can place an opening bid by going to https: / /t.co/6DpTdTxo36 . # GradatimFerociter pic.twitter.com/jBMFYX7xHg

– Blue Origin (@blueorigin)

May 5, 2021

The company has published on its blueorigin page. com information about the trip, which highlights that Safety is the main mission: “ The program had 15 Successful consecutive missions , including three successful escape tests, which showing that the team’s exhaust system can be safely activated at any phase of the flight. ”

It is also reported that the rocket and New Shepard capsule are designed to fly autonomously take six passengers to more than 100 kilometers above the Earth, high enough to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of the planet .

The capsule has six observation windows that are almost three times higher than those of an airplane 747 from Boeing.

This is a historic moment in which American companies compete and strive for a new era of private commercial space travel, where

openly compete entrepreneurs such as Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin, Elon Musk with SpaceX and Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic .

With information from Reuters

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