Blue Origin, a space development venture company of IT giant Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced in July that it will make its first manned space flight on its own spacecraft and sell seats for one of them. Did.
Various companies are aiming to realize commercial space travel, and attention is being paid to which company will be the best.
The space development venture company "Blue Origin" founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made the first manned space flight with its own rocket and spacecraft on July 20, and one of them Announced that it will sell minutes of seats in an auction format.
Used for space flight is a system of reusable rockets and spacecraft, which are rocket-carried to a certain altitude and then detached to reach an altitude of 100 km, which is the beginning of outer space.
Passengers experience so-called weightlessness for approximately three minutes before opening the parachute and landing.
It takes about 10 minutes from launch to landing.
American companies such as "Virgin Galactic" and "SpaceX" are also aiming to realize commercial space travel, and attention is being paid to which company first sends tourists to space.