To sit next to Bezos in space travel, Rs. 205 crore paid

(PTI) Cape Carnwell, dt

Amazon's chief executive officer and billionaire Jeff Bezos and his brother are set to embark on a space trip next month. The live online auction was called on Saturday to sit in the seat next to Jeff Bezos, who will be boarding the spacecraft. One person won the bid for the seat with 3 million (approximately Rs 302 crore). Bezos' company Blue Origin has not announced the winner. Bezos will go into space on July 20, the 52nd anniversary of the arrival of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon.

Within four minutes of the opening of the live online auction on Saturday for the space tour with Jeff Bezos, people had bid more than 50 million. Bidding stopped seven minutes after the auction started. According to sources, an ambitious rich man in the field of space has won the bid.

The Blue Origin spacecraft's new Shepherd rocket is set to make its maiden flight on July 20. With this, the company's space tourism business will also start. Earlier, since 2013, there have been 16 test flights of reusable rockets and capsules, which have been successful. This will be a historic moment for West Texas. This space tour will also provide an opportunity for the private commercial space sector to move forward. Until now, only government agencies have been working on space missions.

According to Blue Origin, online bidding was called for more than a month before Saturday's online auction, with more than 200 people from 16 countries bidding and the bidding amount reached ૪૮ 500,000. More than 50 bidders bid in Saturday's auction. Jeff Bezos announced Monday that he and his younger brother Mark will be passengers on New Shepherd's first crew flight. With this news came the rise in bidding.

The fully automated capsule will carry six passengers into space. Every traveler will have the privilege of seeing the magnificent view of the space from the large window next to it. The auction for the fourth and final seat on the first flight to New Shepherd will be announced soon, said Erin Cornell, Blue Origin's top sales director. Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin and CEO of Amazon, is the richest man in the world. Bezos has been very excited about lifelong space travel. Bezos is the first in a race against billionaire aeronaut Richard Bresnan and Alan Musk, who have unlimited ambitions for space, to have the opportunity to go into space under commercial aviation.

A video before Jeff Bezos made the final bid for space travel said that looking at Earth from space, your relationship with this planet changes with humanity. Along with Bezos, his brother Mark will also join the space tour. Adam Jonas recently said that the entry into the world of space, investment and industrialization of the world's richest man and the most controversial person in the business world is the biggest announcement. According to the information received so far, the funds raised from this scheme will be kept for charity. Blue Origin hopes that big companies will also try their hand at this business.