Most CEO’s who depart an intense office environment after building a business and running it for decades want to leave the job and get away from it all for awhile.
“Getting away from it all for awhile” for Jeff Bezos means leaving the planet.
And now that he announced that he’s hitching a ride on the first intergalactic space-tourism flight on his space company Blue Origin’s spaceship on July 20, the demand for one of the remaining seats on the flight is getting very competitive.
There’s room for three on the trip, and Bezos is taking his brother Mark on the 11-minute trip with him, and the third seat will go to the winner of an auction.
After the announcement by Bezos Monday, the online bidding has taken off, rising $700,000, and is now sitting at $3.5 million, with it certain to go much higher when it enters a public auction phase on June 12.
The date of July 20 is not a coincidence. It was selected because that is the 52nd anniversary of the 1969 Apollo Moon Landing.
This trip that the Bezos boys will be on is loosely based on the flight of Alan Shepard’s inaugural trip into space for an American back on May 5, 1961.
The Blue Origin aircraft is called the New Shepard rocket, and it will fly past what is called the Karman line, which is the imaginary divider that separates Earth from space.
The capsule is built with windows everywhere, ensuring the tourist astronauts get killer views. They will experience three minutes of weightlessness, and be able to see Earth from space.
If you want to join Bezos in space but you can’t afford it, the next Powerball drawing is Wednesday night, with the estimated jackpot sitting at $20 million.
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