Jeff Bezos and his company Blue Origin want to
get space tourists into orbit as soon as next year, and he said recently that he is selling $ 1 billion worth of Amazon stock to fund the venture.
Not exact matches
His company Virgin Galactic reportedly collected some $ 80 million in deposits from
tourists wanting to
get to
space, something he originally promised would happen in early 2010.
Musk did not name the two
tourists, but said that they knew each other, were «nobody from Hollywood,» and that they would
get extensive training before going into
space.
Many companies plan to
get off the ground by hauling
tourists into
space, but the big money lies in NASA contracts and
space research.
Yes, that's right: One perk of the commercial spaceflight business is that the boss
gets to hitch a ride without shelling out the $ 30 million it would cost to be a
space tourist in the Soyuz.
To
get close to his targets, 47 has to infiltrate large public
spaces full of people and infrastructure: a Paris fashion show in a mansion, a coastal Italian town full of
tourists, an exclusive Japanese day spa brimming with celebrities.