SPACE TOURISM IS GOING TO BECOME A REALITY SOON

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 7/22/2021 11:42:41 AM

T K NANDANAN Dreams of certain billionaires are different and strange and the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos’ is no different either. The news of Jeff Bezos having blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket has made a us all spellbound. Thus, he has become the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft. The Amazon founder was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, and 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from Texas- the youngest and oldest to ever fly in space. Later, the capsule touched down on the desert floor in remote Texas after the 10-minute flight. It may be recalled that last week billionaire Sir Richard Branson reached the edge of space on board his Virgin Galactic rocket plane. Branson is the UK entrepreneur who flew to the space on his Virgin Galactic rocket his company had been developing for 17 years.He returned safely to Earth just over an hour after leaving the ground. He said in a press conference following the flight, “I have dreamt of this moment since I was a kid, but honestly nothing can prepare you for the view of earth from space. The whole thing was just magical.” But, unlike Branson’s piloted rocket plane, Bezos’ capsule was completely automated and required no official staff on board for the up-and-down flight.Bezos blasted off for an 11-minute ride on his company’s rocket, furthering a push to make space tourism viable and fulfilling a childhood dream to explore the heavens and completed the voyage well within time. Bezos’ space tourism company Blue Origin’s rocket New Shepard soared into the skies over a West Texas launchpad at about 8:12 am local time Tuesday carrying the world’s richest man. As a matter of fact,Bezos, 57, planned on travelling to space since he was five years old. Towards the consummation of his desire, he started Amazon.com Inc, as an online book business from his Seattle garage in 1994 and turned it into the world’s largest online retailer, making him the wealthiest man on the planet with a net worth exceeding 200 billion dollars. Now with the space trip being made possible and the rockets reused like planes, we look forward to an era when space tourism is going to flourish. The New Shepard booster will return to a landing pad so it can be reused rather than breaking apart in the atmosphere. Reusable rockets are key to lowering the cost of space travel, which could make it more accessible. Blue Origin hasn’t disclosed the expected price of future space trips or the amount paid by the teenager. Anyway, the space trips are going to become a reality like the aviation business, and surely space tourism will become a flourishing business in the days to come.

 

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