The billionaire Amazon founder will be one of four passengers aboard the New Shepard, which will carry them to the edge of space and back during its planned 11-minute journey.
Virgin Galactic’s Unity spaceplane carried six people — including billionaire Richard Branson, the company’s founder — to suborbital space for a few minutes of weightlessness before returning to Earth. The mission was intended to increase potential buyer’s confidence in the experience.Blue Origin plans to launch tourists past the so-called Karman line 62 miles above Earth, which is often defined as the threshold of space, although NASA and the U.S. military set the line at 50 miles up.
The “willingness to pay continues to be quite high,” Smith said. “Our early flights are going for a very good price.”
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