Jeff Besoz’s Blue Origin first seat to outer space sold for $28 Million Dollars

For all those that dreamt of being an astronaut and visiting other planets as kids Blue Origin are making it possible for the lucky few. The first seat taking off to space besides Jeff Bezos has been sold for a whopping $28 million dollars.

The seller has remained anonymous and could be from anywhere around the world.

Blue Origin announced around 7,600 people from 159 countries registered to win a chance to take a trip to space. The lucky winner of the auction will be taking off on July the 20th 2020. 

The spacecraft named after Alan Shepard, the first man to go to the moon has been rigorously tested since 2012 with 15 successful missions including 3 successful escape tests in case of emergency. Keeping to their sustainable philosophy New Shepard is a reusable suborbital rocket system. The flight is shorter than any flight on Earth lasting only 11 minutes. The spacecraft is built with plenty of space to ensure passengers are comfortable as well as large windows to for passengers to catch an incredible view. 

 “Blue Origin believes that humanity will need to expand, explore, find new energy and material resources, and move industries that stress Earth into space. Blue is working on this today by developing partially and fully reusable launch vehicles that are safe, low cost and serve the needs of all civil, commercial and defense customers.”

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Blue Origin is a private aerospace manufacturing organisation based in Kent, Washington. They provide spaceflight services as well as promote careers in STEM as they believe technology is the future and the best way to save our earth may be through gathering millions of willing people to create a whole new life in space. This will save our already dwindling resources as well as leave the possibility for leaders in technology to come up with new and advanced technology through the study of space.

In competition with Blue Origin is  Elon musk’s company spaceX launched in 2002. The spacecraft will be launched also later this year on the 23rd of October.