Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin sent six people to space on Thursday for space tourism. The company’s New Shepard spacecraft took off from Launch Site One in Texas. This spacecraft took the passengers 107 km above the earth and then from there people came back to earth through parachute.

Blue Origin set record

With this flight, Blue Origin has also set a new world record. For the first time, people of Egypt and Portugal became a part of space tourism. Engineer Sara Sabri became the first Egyptian to travel into space and businessman Mario Ferreira became the first Portuguese to go into space.

Also on the trip were Cobie Cotton, co-founder of Dude Perfect, British-American climber Vanessa O’Brien, technology leader Clint Kelly III and telecommunications executive Steve Young.

The 6 crew members of Blue Origin’s sixth flight.

Journey completed in 10 minutes

This space mission took only 10 minutes 20 seconds. During this, the maximum speed of the spacecraft was 2,239 mph, or 3603 kilometers per hour.

This is how space travel

The New Shepard spacecraft consists of a rocket and a capsule. This capsule is launched. The time taken from the time of liftoff till the capsule lands on Earth is 10-11 minutes. Astronauts feel light for some time during this.

The rocket lands minutes before the capsule lands. The special thing is that both of them are reusable i.e. they can be used again. This rocket works like SpaceX’s Falcon 9 orbital rocket.

The time taken from the time of liftoff till the capsule lands on Earth is 10-11 minutes.

A ticket worth about 10 crores

According to a Quartz report, a ticket for Blue Origin’s spacecraft costs $1.25 million, or Rs 9,89,73,750. That’s more than the ticket price for Richard Branson’s company Virgin Galactic.

Mission started last year

Blue Origin has so far made space travel a total of six times. In this way, the company has made a total of 31 people travel to space so far. Blue Origin started this mission in July last year by sending three people, including Bezos, to space.