Amazon intends to change our lives, and not just for how long concerns the purchase of products online. No, Jeff Bezos really wants to take us into space, as tourists, and he promises to do it within just two years. Science fiction or very close reality?
In fact, it seems that Bezos will begin testing space flights with people on board from next year and, if all goes well, tourists in groups of six will be able to experience a short space flight as early as 2018. Bezos himself said this, opening the doors of the headquarters to journalists general of his space company Blue Origin around Seattle.
Blue Origin is not the only company of its kind in the USA: there are also Elon Musk's SpaceX and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic. Bezos wants to be the first CEO offer tourist space travel ai ordinary citizens, up to 100 suborbital flights per year. Obviously, the safety of passengers will be put first.
Amazon's New Shepard reusable space rocket, with the capsule hosting the crew, carries six passengers, in weightlessness for one ten di minutes before having to return to Earth. There would be many people interested in an experience of this type, obviously at quite high costs. So far Blue Origin, founded in 2000, he made two throws, successful. Will we really be able to see the Earth from afar?
