This is how Bezos took off on the Blue Origin 3:37 rocket
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After Jeff Bezos and the crew completed their flight into space, Blue Origin announced that it is open for ticket sales.
Those interested in flying on a future trip were asked to send an email to the company.
However, they did not disclose how much a ticket would cost.
Unlike Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, its main competitor, Blue Origin has yet to sell tickets to the general public.
It also hasn't said how much it will sell the seats for.
So far, the only price that was made public was the US $ 28 million contributed by the auction winner, yet to be identified.
But they mysteriously canceled the trip with the world's richest man on his rocket, saying only that they had a scheduling conflict, according to Blue Origin.
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That person will participate in a subsequent flight, possibly sometime this year.
Blue Origin says it will do up to two additional manned missions to space in 2021, which are already in the booking process.
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We also know that Oliver Daemen's father, the young man, 18, who flew in the place of the auction winner, participated in the bid and was given the option to purchase a ticket after the winner left the flight. of this Tuesday.
But Blue Origin has been strictly silent on how much money was exchanged.
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"We are selling tickets. Obviously the first ticket was sold through an auction, but we are chatting with our customers who participated in that auction. If anyone is interested, please email us at astronauts@blueorigin.com and we will have a conversation, because we want to get people into space and get them there soon, "Blue Origin Head of Sales Ariane Cornell told CNN Business' Rachel Crane.
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The bottom line
: We still have no idea how much most people have paid, or are willing to pay, for the opportunity to spend 11 minutes aboard Blue Origin's New Shepherd rocket.
But the company says the auction gave a strong indication that there are many eager to participate: 7,600 people from 159 countries have signed up to bid.
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