Just imagine a world where people of all ages, all backgrounds, from anywhere, of any gender of any ethnicity, have equal access to space. Welcome to the new dawn of New Space age.
Two competing billionaires have launched successful trips to space in the race for commercial space travel. On July 11, 2021 British entrepreneur Richard Branson along with his five crewmates including Indian origin aeronautical engineer Sirisha Bandla has successfully flown to to the edge of space and back in his Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane.
On July 20, 2021 Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos blasted off into space on the New Shepard spacecraft along with his team constitued of his brother Mark Bezos, an 18-year old from the Netherlands, Oliver Daeman and an 82- year aviation pioneer from Texas, Wally Funk. With this at 18 Oliver became the youngest Astronaut ever and Wally Funk became the the oldest Astronaut ever into the space.
Jeff Bezos has already stepped down as Amazon CEO and is now focusing more on his space firm Blue Origin.He aims to transform space travel and colonize the solar system.
Both Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have mentioned in their interviews that they will organise a few more trips to space this year and many more of these will come in the following years but the passengers have to pay around 2.5 million dollars for a few minutes trip. So of course not everyone but Millionaires can surely be the next into the space.
By: Ms. Kirandeep Kaur
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