*WASHINGTON – Days are not far when general public will get to visit space,as a company is soon going to start selling passenger tickets for trips tospace.*
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will start selling tickets to send passengers forsuborbital commercial space flights by 2019 through his space-tourismstartup Blue Origin.
Though the company’s Senior Vice President Rob Meyerson didn’t give detailabout the ticket prices, he did inform that the firm’s New Shepardsuborbital vehicle will carry the first space tourists to orbit in nextyear. “We plan to start flying our first test passengers soon. We expect tostart selling tickets in 2019,” *Space News *quoted Meyerson.
Though un-crewed, New Shepard has already been through numerous tests toensure safety. This time, Meyerson asserts that it will soon carrypassengers. Along with no information on ticket pricing, Meyerson did noteven indicate for how long the passengers will stay in space, as per*Futurism.*
The company claims that the capsule is able to carry passengers to analtitude of over 60km above the Earth, so they experience a few minutes ofweightlessness along with observing the curvature of the planet set againstthe blackness of space, wrote *RT News.*
Furthermore, this raises the point that Blue Origin isn’t the first companytrying to go for space tourism. Rival SpaceX, founded by billionaire ElonMusk, is too planning to carry people to moon, but it’s not anytime soon.However, another rival Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has already bookedhundreds of reservations for tickets priced at $250,000 per head, but theflight dates are not yet known.