Jeff Bezos offers to cover billions of dollars of NASA costs in exchange for a contract to build a lunar lander to land astronauts on the moon.
He and his fellow passengers floated in microgravity for a couple of minutes before their capsule returned and landed after 10 minutes and 10 seconds.
Right now, Bezos and fellow billionaire Richard Branson are the only two major entrepreneurs in the market of launching tourists to the edge of space. Branson’s , which also recently completed a crewed flight, has historically sold seats on its flights between $200,000 and $250,000 per ticket.. Yet its high profile means it has a powerful and widespread influence over the space industry, with investors often pointing to astronaut flights as driving excitement about the broader consequences of the extraterrestrial marketplace.for future passenger flights to the edge of space, Bezos said last week.
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