SPACE TOURISM
June 15, 2021
Last week, Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space company called Blue Origin concluded the online auction for the first seat on New Shephard, a rocket system meant to take tourists to space. The seat went for a winning bid of $28 million.
Blue origin
- Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington.
- it was founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.
New Shephard
- New Shepard is blue origin’s reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space.
- New Shephard has been named after Mercury astronaut Alan Shephard – the first American to go to space.
Source :
Indian Express
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