translated from Spanish: A man paid $28 million to accompany Jeff Bezos into space

During this week Bezos revealed that both he and his brother Mark will be aboard the New Shepard on July 20 on a journey of just 10 minutes. They will be joined by the winner of the charity auction whose identity will be revealed in the coming weeks, and a fourth space tourist, yet to be determined, according to Blue Origin sales director Ariane Cornell, reported the AFP agency.28 million dollars was the sum paid by the third traveler of the first manned space flight of the company Blue Origin next month. The sum was enough to beat 20 rivals, in an auction that began on May 19 and whose last 10 minutes were broadcast on television. Bids reached $4.8 million on Thursday, but soared in the final live auction with increases of one million dollars. The proceeds, in addition to the 6% commission that the auctioneer holds, will go to blue origin’s founding, Club for the Future, which aims to inspire future generations to pursue scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical careers. The New Shepard will take off from a desert in West Texas. Then the capsule in which the passengers travel will separate from the propellant and reach beyond the Karman Line, about 100 kilometers high, which marks the recognized boundary between the atmosphere and the space of the Tierra.De the 10 minutes that the trip lasts, travelers will spend four in space, where they can feel the weightlessness and observe the curvature of the Earth from space.

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