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As a first person to take a ride into space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will cost at least $2.8 million.
The Jeff Bezos-owned aerospace company has come up with the public auction for one of the first seats on New Shepard on 19th May. Till now the highest bid recorded was $2.4 million which further increased to $2.6 million.
During the time of writing this article, the highest bid was at a massive $2.8 million. This you can say is just double the highest bid of $1.4 million which was seen during the first phase of the auction, which was sealed and ran from 5th to 19th May.
By considering that the auction will continue open to other interested parties until June 10, it’s probable the bids will get greater within the next 20 days. And new records will further be breached during the third phase of the auction.
The winner of the desired seat will be one of the six people on board the first-ever crewed flight of Blue Origin’s suborbital spacecraft planned to launch on 20th July.
Well, the New Shepard will take off from the Blue Origin spaceport in west Texas and bolt towards the Karman line — believed to be the edge of the atmosphere, 100 kilometers over the surface of Earth. Before dipping back down towards the planet, the passenger will have a few moments to experience the weightlessness of space and peer out the window.
Now you need to see how much a single-seat onboard the shuttle will cost, once regular space flights are operational. Blue Origin’s main competitor, billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, is all set the price at $250,000 per seat of its yet-to-launch space tourism service. And Blue Origin has vowed to price its ticket competitively.
Well, the company didn’t reveal who is behind the bids yet. But everything will be revealed on 12th June, after the final part of the auction is done.
