Blue Origin, billionaire Jeff Bezos' rocket company, disclosed $2 million as the current highest bid for a seat on its New Shepard spacecraft after the startup closed the first phase of its auction.
Blue Origin, billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space firm, disclosed that the current highest bid for a seat on the inaugural flight of its New Shepard spacecraft stands at $2.4m as the second round of its auction continues.
The company said it received more than 5,200 bidders from 136 countries in the first round, but did not disclose the highest bid as that round was sealed.
The second round kicked off with an initial bid of $1.4m, according to the Blue Origin website.
The process will last until June 10 and conclude with a live online auction on June 12.
The company is targeting July 20 for the first suborbital sightseeing trip on its spacecraft, a landmark moment in a competition to usher in a new era of private commercial space travel.
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Blue Origin, billionaire Jeff Bezos rocket company, disclosed that the current highest bid for a seat on its New Shepard spacecraft was $2.4 million in the ongoing second round of auction.
Virgin Galactic hints at further delays as billionaires leapfrog Branson in space tourism race
The company s next test flight had been planned this month but it says the timing “is currently being evaluated”
Richard Branson s Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE:SPCE) is continuing to lose money and lose ground to other billionaire-backed rivals in the race to take tourists into space.
In first-quarter results overnight, the company said while it has now corrective work on its spaceship and is ready to start pre-flight procedures for its next manned flight, which had been planned this month, the timing “is currently being evaluated”.