3 Jun 2021

A Ticket to the Stars - Space Tourism

From Nights, 7:12 pm on 3 June 2021

This coming July 20th, on the 52nd Anniversary of the Moon Landing the first paying passengers will fly suborbital on Blue Origin's New Shepard. Seats are being auctioned on 12 June and the bidding is currently at $2.8M USD.

Co-Founder of Spacebase, Emeline Paat-Dahlstom joins us once again to taking a look at the burgeoning space tourism race.

The interior of the Blue Origin Crew Capsule. The company founded by American billionaire Jeff Bezos will send humans into space for the first time on July 20, for a journey of a few minutes in zero gravity aboard his New Shepard rocket.

The interior of the Blue Origin Crew Capsule. The company founded by American billionaire Jeff Bezos will send humans into space for the first time on July 20, for a journey of a few minutes in zero gravity aboard his New Shepard rocket. Photo: AFP PHOTO /BLUE ORIGIN/HANDOUT