The space above 50 miles or 80 kms kms is theoretically space, with passengers experiencing total weightlessness. Russia and then US conquered outer space sixty years back. For the first time, billionaires are opening up a business frontier.
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| Virgin Galactic mother ship VSS Eve and space vehicle VSS Unity |
World's richest person Jeff Bezos and Amazon Executive Chairman with his Blue Origin has been in intense competition with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk's SpaceX, to be the first to commercially fly passengers to space and open up space tourism. There are almost 1.3 million people waiting to go to space.
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| Sirisha Bandla, 34 .. |
The above three companies are out to send commercial passengers to space.
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| View of the inside of the VSS Unity at 80 kms altitude |
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| Officially Sir Richard Branson, 70, Astronaut |
The flight was a massive success. It touched down as beautiful and as planned at the exact location in New Mexico.
Soon private passengers can fly to space and come back, experiencing weightlessness and experience upto 6G body drag while in descent.
On 11 th July Sir. Richard Branson at age 70 years becomes an astronaut.
This shows that if you have the willingness, passion and ready to do hard work, even at age 70 one can fly to space and experience the thrill which may be only less than 100 people ever in the history of humanity of 100 million years and 108 billion people ever who have lived on this planet. Thank you Richard, you have shown that age is not limit to intuition, passion and scientific discovery. We have felt really elated at your passion to take up such initiatives at this ripe age of 70 and continue to motivate your employees and fans around the world. The 34 year old Indian born Sirisha is another pride for India.
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| Sir Richard Branson experiencing weightlessness |
Jeff Bezos is to fly to space in his Blue Origin space vehicle New Shepard on the 20th of July, in about a weeks time. Richard Branson has actually beteb Jeff Bezos and his brother to space. They are also going with a 82 year old lady and a commercial paenger who has earned his right to go with them for a price of $29 million.
Though Virgin Galactioca vehicle VSS Unity has been the first to carry a passenger to space, Sir Branson, others were crew trained engineers and mission specialists. The Julky 20 flight by Blue Origin will also carry a commercil passenger and will be the first in tyhe wold to do so.
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| Just a 3 min rendezvous in space with the Blue Shepard capsule and rocket |
While VSS Unity was carried aboard the spaceship VSS Eve as a plane, Blue Origin will go up as one vehicle, a rocket, the Blue Shepard, the rocket ejecting the capsule at a height of 62 miles above the earth\s surface (app 100 kms above earth). The rocket will eventually land on earth (same as the Virgin Galactic Mothership VSS Eve).
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| Blue Origin flies 12 miles higher into space than VSS Unity |
One day I too will fly to space .. If Blue Origin also succeeds in flying to space and returning to earth and each of them do it 5 times a month, it will take 3000 years to service these 1.3 million people.
A fear of the world, though unfounded, is whether Bezos be as lucky as Richard Branson ? Will his rocket capsule Shepard bring him back to earth from the brink of space from 100 km altitude ? Let's hope for the best ..
George (pictures courtesy Virgin Galactica and Wall Street Journal)
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