Blue Origin: Bidder pays $28 million to visit space with Jeff Bezos
By DW
20 June 2021 |
6:29 am
Bezos, the owner of the Blue Origin space travel company, will venture beyond Earth's atmosphere on the New Shepard spacecraft next month.
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