One Ticket! $28 Million!! Only for 11 Minutes Travel!!!

Did you believe that if the price of the ticket for 11 minutes travel is $28 million? All of you think that either I’m mad or if you take me to heaven? For that one my answer for the first one I’m not mad and the answer for the second one is yes. What are you saying that I’m going to heaven? Yes, but not exactly heaven, but this travel will take you where heaven lies!

Hey! Don’t make us Confused! Define the things properly!

Ok, I will explain the details step by step. But before going to that ticket thing I would like to ask you something. Did you heard about Blue Origin? I think most of us say No. Ok then the next thing is Have you ever heard about Jeff Bezos?

Hey! Wait! What would you like to say? Why are you asking so many things in this article? And how can you ask this silly question all of us know Jeff Bezos, he is the richest person in the world and at the same time he if the founder of the well known company Amazon. And stop asking questions, explain the details about the article.

Ok, sorry to make you all angry. Hereafter I will explain the entire thing one by one without making you confused. Deal!!

We all know the details about Jeff Bezos, but here I want to add some more details about him. He is not only the founder of Amazon but also the founder of Blue Origin. Then the next thing is he is retiring from Amazon.

What? What did you say? He is retiring!!!

Yes, he is retired from Amazon. (I think he is getting bored of online shopping so wants to do the new thing). After retirement, he wants to make a new path for the world of tourism. It is not just ordinary tourism but fantasy tourism.

😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠!!!

Hey! Stop making Surprises Explain it properly!!

Yes! He started a new company called Blue Origin with the vision of enabling a future where millions of people are living and working in space to benefit earth. In order to preserve earth, Blue believes that that humanity will need to expands, explore, find new energy and material resources and move industries that stress earth into space. Blue is working on this today by developing partially or fully reusable launch vehicles that are safe, low cost and serve the needs of all civil, commercial and defense customers.

I think the above definition is bit complicated right, wait I’ll explain it in simple terms. Basically, Blue Origin is the reusable rocket making company but it currently working for to develop the rockets that will only explore on earth alone. It will not go outside the earth and at the same time it is the reusable one right so we can use it multiple time instead of making a new one every time. This will reduce the amount of making.

I think now you all understand what the mission and vision of Blue Origin is. Now we can come to the ticket matter.

As usual, we all have the goal after our work-life retirement like going spiritual trip, exploring new areas, etc. like that Jeff Bezos have one goal but it is not the ordinary thing which means he wants to go to the space. Basically, he thinks that the future of human will not in Mars but it lies in the space around our earth. So he wants to start that space tourism. According to his goal, Blue Origin starts to launch new spaceship (flight! They said flight on their page) called New Shepard, which is reusable liquid rocket engine, so those who travel on it will will return to the earth after the travelling.

Ok, Jeff Bezos is going to space on his own ship. Then the What about those tickets?

Wait!! I’ll tell you that. The New Shepard has six seats. Three seats are assigned for pilots, one for Jeff Bezos, and one for his brother Mark. The remaining one seat will be released for auction. The auction is finished on June 12 and the winning bid amount is $28 million, which means the winner will fly to space on New Shepard (first human flight for space) on July 20 and will join Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark. How surprising is it right?

Hey! What about the bidding amount?

The amount will be donated to the Blue Origin foundation for further research.

Who is that lucky person?

The name of the winner is not disclosed by the company. They said that they will announce it in a week.

The next thing in this article is the traveling agenda of New Shepard.

The first human flight New Shepard will take off on July 20. After five minutes of taking off the booster is released from the capsule and it will land on the ground then the capsule alone will travel for space if it reaches the Karman line (there is no gravity in that place which means they are above 100km on the earth surface). They will stay there for 4 minutes. After that, the capsule is landed using a parasite. This will take 4 more minutes. Overall the traveling time is 11 minutes. This entire surprising thing is happening on July 20th. So what we have to do is to wait for that event until July 20th.

Before he concludes, all of you think that why I have chosen this one for today? Because I feel very excited once I heard about it so I think you can also like to hear about it that why I select it. Ok before the end I want to ask some questions you:

  • If you have the chance to go to the New Shepard along with one more person, then who is she/he?
  • Do you have any goals like this?

Let me know your answer through the Comments section.

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