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What it’ll be like to fly on Blue Origin’s first manned rocket – Executive Traveller
Wealthy would-be astronauts can now bid for a seat into space, and the auction’s already rocketed past $3.6 million.
Astronaut Alan Shepard trained for two years to become the first American to go into space in 1961. Sixty years later, a deep-pocketed civilian will journey toward the stars after just a two-day warm-up.
Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon.coms billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, is publicly auctioning off a seat on its first crewed flight, which is scheduled to occur on July 20.
At press time, the high bid stood at US$2.8 million. There have been more than 5,200 bidders, from 136 different…
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