Jeff Bezos Will Fly On Blue Origin's 1st Human Spaceflight In July
Blue Origin will launch its first human spaceflight in July later this year. Jeff Bezos and his younger brother Mark Bezos are going to be on the inaugural Blue Origin spaceflight. Bids for a seat on the historic flight have gone as high as $24 million.
When Blue Origin launches its very first human spaceflight in July later this year, it will carry none other than Jeff Bezos into space.
That's right, the news was confirmed by Jeff Bezos on his Instagram handle earlier today.
Jeff Bezos // Blue Origin Rocket
Even though Elon Musk and SpaceX have achieved this milestone last year, Blue Origin has been building towards their inaugural human spaceflight for some time now.
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In fact, in order to create some buzz around the event, Blue Origin even announced a seat on the historic flight to the highest bidder -- with bids going as high as $2.4 million -- auction for which closes on June 10, with results announced on June 12.
And now with Jeff Bezos announcing that he along with his younger brother, Mark Bezos, are going to be on the inaugural Blue Origin spaceflight, it will definitely renew interest among high-profile space enthusiasts.
"Ever since I've been five years old, I've dreamed of going to space," wrote Jeff Bezos on his Instagram profile, on how he'll finally be able to go on the "greatest adventure with his best friend" -- his younger brother.
First step towards space tourism
According to a CNN report, Blue Origin's human crewed flight will see the company's six-seater capsule and 59-foot rocket New Shepard go on an 11-minute flight that'll reach more than 60 miles or 100 kilometre above Earth's surface.
Just by going on the Blue Origin flight, Jeff Bezos will do something that Elon Musk has still not done -- to fly on his company's rocket to space.
Apart from Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, even British billionaire Sir Richard Branson is expected to have a human flight of his Virgin Galactic suborbital space flight later this year.
What about your space flight ambitions? Given a choice, would you like to fly to the edge of space, maybe even dock into the International Space Station? Let us know in the comments section below...
