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An anonymous rich man paid $ 28 million for a space trip with Jeff Bezos

A wealthy lucky man paid $ 28 million yesterday for an auctioned travel spot with billionaire Jeff Bezos on his company’s first blue space flight, scheduled for July 20, AFP reported.

The winner, whose identity will be known only in a few weeks, was ahead of twenty other participants in the online auction, which lasted less than 10 minutes.

The bidding for the spacewalk lasted a month. The starting price for the place was 4.8 million dollars.

The man who won the auction will accompany the founder of Amazon, his brother Mark and another passenger. The trip will take place with the Blue Shepherd missile of the Blue Origin, which is scheduled to be launched on July 20 from western Texas.

The auction was held yesterday after more than a month of bidding. More than 7,500 people from 159 countries registered for the auction, of which only 20 reached its final stage yesterday, the Associated Press reported.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, who will step down as Amazon’s director in July, announced in early June that he would take part in the first manned flight with the New Shepherd rocket with his brother and a third bidder. space tourist. The commercial director of the company “Blue Origin” Arian Cornell clarified yesterday that a fourth space tourist will take part in the flight without revealing his name, AFP notes.

/ Alexey Margoevsky /

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