The founder of Amazon is ready to take tourists into space already in 2019 year: how much is a ticket

The cost of a tourist flight on the ship New Shepard from the company of Jeff Bezos Blue Origin will cost $ 200-300 thousands, writes Dev.by with reference to two sources Reuters.

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The flight will last about 10 minutes. Earlier, Blue Origin executives said that New Shepard test flights are scheduled for the near future, and sales of the first tickets for “simple earthlings” will begin in 2019.

The company, which the richest person in the world Jeff Bezos finances from personal funds, intends to launch missiles with detachable passenger capsules. Each of them will accommodate up to six people, and the height of the flight will be 100 km. This will be enough to spend a few minutes in zero gravity and make sure that the Earth is not flat. The survey will provide six windows, the size of which is about three times the size of the "windows" in the aircraft Boeing 747.

Photo: Blue Origin

Powerful parachutes will help the safe return of the capsule.

As he wrote TASS, at the 33-th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in April 2017, Bezos said that for each of the tourists a soft armchair with black leather upholstery is provided, the back of which is tilted so that everyone sitting in it can look into one of the large portholes. After reaching the boundary of space, you can unbutton your seat belts and spend about a minute in a state of weightlessness about 4.

It is planned to set aside only two days to prepare tourists for the flight. They will be launched aboard the ship 30 minutes before launch.

According to League.net, New Shepard is named after astronaut Alan Shepard. This system for commercial suborbital flights consists of a single-stage reusable launch vehicle and a passenger capsule. It works completely autonomously: the flight is controlled by the on-board computer, and not the pilot or engineers from the Earth.

The rocket engine is powered by hydrogen and oxygen, and during the 110-second flight it develops thrust to 490 kilonewtons, bringing the capsule to an altitude of about 40 km.

Photo: Blue Origin

After this, the stage lands independently with the help of an engine, and the passenger capsule flies upward by inertia for more than 60 km, reaching the Karman line - the conventional boundary between the atmosphere and space, after which it lands using parachutes.

Photo: Blue Origin

System development started in 2006. For its own launch site, the company acquired 770 square. km of land in the state of Texas. In 2015, she successfully launched the rocket and capsule for the first time.

The last test took place on April 29 this year. Then the ship, launched from a test site in Texas, rose to a height of 107 kilometers. After this, the capsule for tourists, separated from the launch vehicle, descended to the ground by parachute, and the single-stage carrier made a vertical landing. The role of the “passenger” was played by a mannequin with built-in sensors. He was given the name Skywalker, in honor of Luke Skywalker, one of the heroes of the Star Wars saga.

Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, created Blue Origin in 2000 year to develop aircraft for the development of space tourism, including the creation of reusable rockets. Blue Origin was the first company to successfully land a reusable rocket.

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