If You’re Still Planning Summer Travel, How About Space?
What it will be like flying out of the atmosphere on Blue Origin’s first manned rocket, an experience currently being auctioned to wealthy, aspiring astronauts.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.
Source: Blue Origin
Astronaut Alan Shepard trained for two years to become the first American to go into space in 1961. Sixty years later, a deep-pocketed civilian will journey toward the stars after just a two-day warm-up.
Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon.com’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, is publicly auctioning off a seat on its first crewed flight, which is scheduled to occur on July 20.