Jeff Bezos and his company Blue Origin are ready to fly humans onboard its New Shepard suborbital rocket but for a big price tag.
Blue Origin opened an online auction Tuesday to bid for one seat on board the capsule for a 10-minute flight to the edge of space.
The company announced it’s ready to fly customers after 15 successful launches and landings from Texas with the New Shepard rocket and the astronaut capsule. [TRENDING: Family barred from flight over child’s mask | Photos: Baby gators’ snouts taped shut | Bartender’s face slashed] “On this day 60 years ago, Alan Shepard made history by becoming the first American to fly to space,” Blue Origin wrote in a news release. “In the decades since, fewer than 600 astronauts have been to space