Spacecraft astronauts of ‘Blue Origin’ will fly on 20 July. Ticket auction has started for this.
Blue Origin Rocket (Blue Origin)
The spacecraft of Blue Origin, the company of the world’s richest man Jeff Bezos, will fly to space for the first time in July with astronauts. A seat is being auctioned in this spacecraft, which any person can buy and go into space. The spacecraft has a total seating area of six astronauts. This spacecraft will be transported to space through the ‘New Shepard’ launch vehicle on July 20, on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon.
Significantly, on July 20, 1969, NASA’s Apollo mission landed on the moon’s land for the first time. Neil Ormstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to step outside the earth. ‘Blue Origin’ announced in this regard on May 5. It has now been told that a spacecraft seat will be auctioned in three stages and the winning person will get a chance to sit in it.
How much is the ticket price?
The first phase of the auction will continue till May 19, in which the sealed online auction will be done. After this, the unsold online auction will take place and the line will be auctioned online on June 12. More information can be gathered about the auction of the seat by visiting the website of ‘Blue Origin’. According to a Reuters report, ‘Blue Origin’ can charge passengers about two lakh dollars (about Rs 1.5 crore). However, this price is likely to increase during the auction. At the same time, this flight will be only 10 minutes.
The auction amount will be donated
‘Blue Origin’ has reported that the money received during this auction will be donated to the ‘Blue Origin’ Foundation, Club for the Future, to help future generations to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Can. ‘New Shepard’ has a rocket and a capsule, which can be used again. After taking flight, this rocket will return to Earth again. At the same time, the capsule will return to the surface of the earth safely via parachute after completing its journey.
‘Virgin Glacial’ giving competition to ‘Blue Origin’ in space tourism
So far, ‘Blue Origin’ has done 15 test missions without any crew through ‘New Shepard’. The latest mission was completed on April 14, which the company said was an astronaut rehearsal. In space tourism, the biggest rival of ‘Blue Origin’ is ‘Virgin Glactic’. ‘Virgin Glactic’ has completed two crew missions so far. For the first time in December 2018, the ‘VSS Unity Space Plane’ of ‘Virgin Glactic’ arrived in space. After this, it also traveled to space in February 2019. However, it has not yet started selling tickets to customers.
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