More than $ 2.4 million and the auction continues to win a few minutes' space travel ticket

ArabiaWeather - Blue Origin has auctioned a seat available for passengers to watch space for a few minutes on a space flight in a rocket belonging to it, and the seat price has so far exceeded $ 2.4 million, and those wishing to bid a higher amount have a bid to win a travel ticket to The space.

The company, Blue Origin, for space missiles, owned by the American "Jeff Bezos", founder of Amazon.com, said that it will launch a rocket into space with passengers for the first time on July 20 this year, which is the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, There will be one seat available for passengers on the flight, which will carry six astronauts on a short trip to the edge of outer space.

"We've spent years testing, so we're ready," Arian Cornell, Astronaut Sales Manager at Blue Origin, said at a press conference, as the tourist rocket named "Alan Shepard" (named after the first American to travel in space) underwent fifteen flights. Pilot, with no passengers on board. Ahead of the final test in April, crews have trained to climb in and out of the capsule.

Details of the tourist trip to space

For the scheduled flight in July, Ms. Cornell said, the astronauts would arrive at the launch site in West Texas four days before their flight for safety training.

At an altitude of about 47 miles, or 250,000 feet, the capsule carrying passengers will detach from the launch boosters, and soon after, the astronauts will feel weightless for about three minutes during which they view space before returning to Earth. Passengers will not need to wear spacesuits or helmets as the capsule is fully pressurized.