Monday, 16 July 2018
Jeff Bezos really wants to make space tourism a thing. According to a report by Reuters, the Amazon CEO’s rocket company, Blue Horizon, could begin shuttling humans into space as early as next year. The cost of the trip? A mere $200,000 to $300,000 per ticket. For the price of a decent house in most areas of the country, Bezos plans to propel wealthy adventurers more than 100 km (62 miles) into suborbital space in Blue Horizon‘s ‘New Shepard’ autonomous rocket. Once in space, travelers will experience a few minutes of weightlessness, as well as the curvature of Earth —…
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