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USA: Jeff Bezos will take part in Blue Origin’s first tourist trip into space

Its founder Amazon.com Inc and space company Blue Origin Jeff Bezos will take part in the first New Shepard capsule cruise with his brother, Mark, and the winner of an auction for a third ticket. “Ever since I was five years old, I dream of traveling in space. On July 20 I will make this trip with my brother. The biggest adventure with my best friend “, the billionaire wrote in a post on his Instagram account, APE reports.

THE Blue Origin closed the first round of the auction last month and announced it had received more than 5,200 bids from 136 countries, without revealing which bid was the highest in that round. The current highest bid is at $ 2.8 million in the ongoing second round of the auction, according to its website. Blue Origin.

The process will last until June 10 and will end with a final phase on June 12, with a live online auction. The company is targeting July 20 for its spacecraft’s first sub-orbital tourist voyage, a milestone in the competition to open a new era of private commercial space travel.

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