How far is space tourism from ordinary people? Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, successfully entered space.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, former CEO of Amazon and founder of private space company Blue Origin, once again realized his dream: space tourism.

On Tuesday (202 1), Bezos and three other passengers-82-year-old female pilot pioneer Wally Fink; 18-year-old Dutch physics student; And Bezos' younger brother Mark, took off at 9: 00 a.m. EDT on the New Shepard rocket from the Blue Origin 1 launch site in western Texas, which is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Van Horne.

This flight is farther than any previous commercial space flight. The cabin crosses the Carmen line (the boundary between the earth's atmosphere and outer space, about 100 km above sea level) at 9: 00 am EST. Once the capsule reaches the peak of ascent, the astronauts will experience weightlessness for a few minutes, then begin to descend back to Earth and land at 9: 22 am EST.

The highest altitude of the new Shepard capsule is 107.05 km. The descending rocket landed at 9: 00am19, and the capsule landed at 9: 22am, about 10 minutes after liftoff. When the capsule communicator will talk to every space traveler after landing, Bezos first replied: "This is the best day he has ever spent!" "

Although all the passengers in The Origin of Blue are "astronauts", in fact only Fink has been trained. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), in the early 1960s, she took part in a project with a dozen American women who were going to fly in space, and they were later called Mercury 13. Fink and her fellow astronauts have never been sent into space, but she has taught more than 3000 people to fly in her life, and their space flight record is 19600 space flight hours. Bezos knew her story and decided to go to heaven with Fink.

Bezos is now the second billionaire to self-finance a personal trip to the edge of space. Earlier this month, on July 1 1, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson took three passengers and two pilots on the company's Unity 22 spacecraft to perform suborbital missions.

Although Unity 22 was a manned flight, New Shepard was the first fully automatic plane to transport civilians into space, and two passengers helped the mission break more space flight records. At the age of 82, Fink replaced American astronaut john glenn as the oldest person to visit space. According to NASA, Glenn 1998 spent nearly nine days on the space shuttle Discovery, when he was 77 years old.

Damon, the youngest Dutch physics student, has also become the youngest space traveler in history. According to NASA, the previous record holder was Russian astronaut gherman Titov, who completed 17' s orbit around the earth on the 196 1 mission, when he was 26 years old.

A succession of private companies send people to travel in space, which also means the arrival of a new era, the rise of space tourism-a luxury that only the extremely rich can enjoy. The seat of the first traveler was sold at auction for 28 million dollars. The bidder did not disclose his personal information. But some people speculate that it should be this 18-year-old Dutch physics student.

At the same time, Virgin Galactic said that it will provide tickets for the upcoming new commercial space flight at a price of $250,000 per seat.

Ellen Reese, professor of sociology and chair of labor research at the University of California, Riverside, said: "This is a clear reminder of how serious the inequality between executives and ordinary workers has become in some of the largest and most powerful companies."

As the saying goes, distance produces beauty, and the distance from the ground to space is enough to make us ordinary people flinch. What do you think of tens of millions of space tickets?