Jeff Bezos is going to room on to start with crewed flight of rocket

Penni Schewe 07/06/2021 11:30 AM

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At first Released: 07 JUN 21 06:45 ET

Up-to-date: 07 JUN 21 06:47 ET

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business

(CNN) — Jeff Bezos will be flying to room on the 1st crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship created by his area business, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled for July 20th, just 15 days after he is set to resign as CEO of Amazon.

Blue Origin mentioned Bezos’ young brother, Mark Bezos, will also join the flight.

“At any time considering the fact that I was five decades previous, I have dreamed of touring to space,” Bezos explained in a Monday morning Instagram publish. “On July 20th, I will take that journey with my brother. The biggest experience, with my finest friend.”

If all goes in accordance to program, Bezos will be the initially of the billionaire place tycoons to expertise a journey aboard the rocket technological innovation that he is poured millions into developing. Not even Elon Musk, whose SpaceX builds rockets powerful enough to enter orbit around Earth, has declared designs to travel to place aboard one particular of his companies human-deserving crew capsules. British billionaire Richard Branson, whose very own space corporation, Virgin Galactic, is arranging on conducting flights to suborbital room for extremely-rich thrill seekers and competing instantly with Blue Origin. Branson has very long said he would be amid the first passengers aboard Virgin Galactic’s rocket-driven aircraft, but that flight is predicted to consider location later on in 2021.

Blue Origin’s flight crewed flight will see the firm’s six-seater capsule and 59-foot rocket tear towards the edge of place on a 11-minute flight that’ll achieve much more than 60 miles earlier mentioned Earth.

Soon after 6 many years of extensive and normally secretive screening of the rocket and capsule, termed New Shepard, Blue Origin declared in Could that it was preparing to set the very first passengers in a New Shepard capsule.

Nevertheless the company has not declared how much it will sell common tickets for, Blue Origin mentioned one particular seat will be specified to the winner of a thirty day period-extensive auction that’s currently in progress. The bidding experienced achieved $2.8 million as of Sunday night.