Day July 12, 2021

PSST…HEY BUDDY, YOU WANNA BUY AN EXPENSIVE SEAT TO SOMEWHERE WHERE YOU CAN’T ACTUALLY BREATHE?

A Pondering Mind 6 Comments

A great read, by a great writer…

Barking In The Dark

“Three people paid $55 million each to Axiom Space in Houston to fly in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to the International Space Station as soon as early next year.”

“An unnamed passenger paid $28 million to join the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos later this month when his rocket company, Blue Origin, is to launch its New Shepard rocket and capsule.”

“Not long after Richard Branson re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday, he and other employees of his Virgin Galactic venture boasted that the company would greatly expand opportunities for the general publicto travel to space. For the moment, those otherworldly views and feelings of weightlessness will still be held in rarefied air.A seat on one of the company’s spaceships originally cost $200,000. The company later raised the price to $250,000. It then stopped sales after a crash during a test flight in 2014. When the company resumes sales later this year, the price…

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