Blue Origin auctions seat on its first crewed spaceflight for $28 million, scheduled on July 20

 Blue Origin auctions seat on first spaceflight with Jeff Bezos for $28 million

 Jeff Bezos ' Space Ventures, Blue Origin, is to be auctioned off at the stadium will be the host of the first manned space flight on Saturday, for $ 28 million.

The winner of the auction, the name of which has not been disclosed, will be flying to the edge of space, along with the Amazon founder and his brother, Mark, on the new Blue Origin, Shepard rocket, which launches on the 20th of July. The company is said to be the name of the winning bidder will be notified of the next week.

Trading opened at $ 4.8 million, but in the first few minutes of trading, the excess of $ 20 million. The proceeds from the auction, funds that will be donated to the non-profit Blue-the Origin of the Club, with a focus on education and training for the future, to support the children in the interests of the future of water in the careers of all of the layers.

Blue Origin's head of astronautical, and paired to the sale, The Cornell said during the auction, the auction webcast is the first of the passengers to travel to the New Shepherd of the sheep will have to have four people, including Bezos, and his brother, the winner of the auction, and the fourth to be announced later.

The autonomous space flight

The New Shepard rocket carrying the capsule, more than 340, 000 metres high, have more than a dozen of successful test flights, but passengers are on it, including, and, in April, at the company's facility, all of the Facebook users themselves, in the desert. It is designed to carry six people, and flies autonomously, without a pilot. The capsule features a large window so that the passengers could see the ground below it, and in about three minutes, the light off before he goes back to the face of the Earth.

The Blue of the Origin of the system is to be launched vertically, like the rocket and the capsule is re-usable. The launch vehicle and land vertically on a concrete pad at the company's plant in Van Horn, Texas, while the capsule lands in the set, with the help of a parachute. 

 

Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000, and is still in possession of the company, its financing by selling shares of his Amazon shares.

On July 20, is noteworthy because it marks the 52nd anniversary of the fall of the Apollo 11, in a month's time. 

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Branson and Musk

Bezos and other billionaires, Elon Musk, Sir Richard Branson, is struggling to get into the space, but all in their own way. Bezos ' Blue Origin, and Branson's Virgin Galactic will be competing to get the passengers on short-haul flights to the edge of space, a sector which is known as the suborbital tourism, while Musk's SpaceX has begun to take on passengers for more than a day's flying, which is known as the orbital tourism.

Both Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic is preparing for a rocket-powered spacecraft, but that is where the similarities end of the year. These are the new Blue Origin, Shepard rocket launched by Virgin galactic's SpaceShipTwo, the vertical earth system is released, the air returns to the ground, slips, boarding on a track is like an airplane.

The system is Virgin Galactic, and is operated by two pilots, while the Blue of the Origin of the running. Branson's company has also made a test flight the passengers are on board, even if the company has a three-flight test before the beginning to fly on commercial clients, which are scheduled to start in 2022. 

SpaceX launched its Crew Dragon spacecraft into orbit on its reusable Falcon 9 rocket, to send a 10-most of the three missions to the International space station (iss) today.

In addition, the Musk, the government of flights, the company is planning to launch a number of private astronaut mission in the coming year, which will begin with all of the civil Inspiration4 mission, which is scheduled for Sept. SpaceX has also published at least four specific tasks of the Theory of the Space at the beginning of the next year.

Blue Origin, the auction may be brought in $ 28 million for a space on a suborbital spacecraft, is usually significantly less expensive. Virgin Galactic has a history of selling the tickets for $ 200,000 to $ 250,000 per ticket, and the recently will be charged to the Italian air force for about $ 500,000, with a ticket for a training flight.

The Orbital timing of the Mask, the flight is more expensive than the suborbital flights, NASA is paying SpaceX about $ 55 million, for a place on the ISS flight of the space.