'Right to travel to space with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' is sold for over 3 billion yen

Blue Origin , a space development company founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, plans to carry out its first manned space flight using its own rocket ' New Shepard' on July 20, 2021. The Bezos brothers are also scheduled to participate in this manned space flight, but the 'right to travel to space with the Bezos brothers' has been auctioned and sold for a whopping $ 28 million (about 3 billion yen). It turns out that

Blue Origin auctions New Shepard ride with Jeff Bezos for $ 28 million --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/12/22530907/blue-origin-auction-new-shepard-jeff-bezos-space-28-million

Bezos has been passionate about space exploration and space travel, as he said in the past, ' We will use the wealth we have built on Amazon to realize our space travel business.' Blue Origin, a space development company founded by Mr. Bezos, is also independently developing New Shepard, which was successfully launched for the first time in 2015, and finally the first manned space flight using the rocket will be on July 20, 2021. It will be carried out in.

The right to participate in New Shepard's first manned space flight has been on sale in auction format since May 5, 2021 ...

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

In June 2021, it was announced that Jeff Bezos and his younger brother Mark Bezos would both be on a rocket for space travel.

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

As a result, the auction of participation rights, which had changed from 'the right to participate in New Shepard's first manned space flight' to 'the right to participate in New Shepard's first manned space flight with the Bezos brothers', was held on June 12, 2021 ( It ended on Saturday) and was sold for $ 28 million. The bid price has soared from $ 4.8 million to $ 28 million in just 10 minutes.

Identity information about the winning bidder was not revealed at the time of writing, but according to Blue Origin sales director Ariane Cornell, 'Blue Origin needs to complete some final paperwork with the winning bidder. '. After this paperwork is completed, it seems that information about the winning bidder will be released.

You can look back at the auction of the right to participate in Blue Origin's first manned space flight in the following movie.

Replay --New Shepard First Seat Auction --YouTube


Blue Origin's first manned spaceflight challenge, the New Shepard, is a 60-foot-high reusable rocket. New Shepard will carry a 6-seater crew capsule to a micro-gravity environment, and the manned capsule will return to the ground after enjoying a 10-minute space trip.

You can see what the inside of the spaceship / crew capsule that the Bezos brothers will board is made by watching the following movie.

The New Shepard Crew Capsule --YouTube