Jun 08, 2021 11:57:00

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reveals that he will travel to space in July 2021

The space development company 'Blue Origin' founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is planning to carry out the first manned space flight by

the self-developed spacecraft 'New Shepard' on July 20, 2021. Mr. Bezos has announced that he will participate in this Blue Origin's first manned space flight with his brothers.

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Bezos wrote to his Instagram account on June 7, 2021, 'I've wanted to go to space since I was five. On July 20, 2021, I'm going on that journey with my brother. With my best friend. 'To the most wonderful adventure of', and announced that he will travel to space with his brother Mark Bezos.

Blue Origin has been holding an auction of commercial space flight tickets with its proprietary rocket ' New Shepard ' since May 5, 2021, and Mr. Bezos will also participate in the auction.

'Blue Origin' led by Mr. Bezos finally sells tickets for commercial space flight --GIGAZINE

More than 5,200 bidders from 136 countries participated in the first stage of the auction (bid amount not disclosed) held from May 5, 2021 to May 19, 2021. The second stage of the auction has been underway since May 19, 2021, and when I checked the official page of Blue Origin, a maximum of $ 3.5 million (about 380 million yen) was bid at the time of writing the article.

The second phase of the auction will continue until June 10, 2021, and space flight participants will be decided at the live auction on June 12, 2021.

In New Shepard's commercial space flight, the booster separated and entered the weightless space about 3 minutes after launch

, reached the highest altitude beyond the Karman line in about 4 minutes, and returned to the gravity zone about 6 minutes later. However, in about 10 minutes, we plan to land in the Texas desert at 1.6 km / h.