{"id":6790,"date":"2021-06-14T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:55:34","slug":"blue-origin-flight-to-space-auctioned-for-28-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/blue-origin-flight-to-space-auctioned-for-28-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin Flight To Space Auctioned For $28 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A mysterious bidder has recently won an auction to travel to space aboard a reusable rocket made by Jeff Bezos&#8217; space company Blue Origin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The auction winner will pay $28 million for the ticket to space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Blue Origin, which has registered nearly 7,600 people from 159 countries to bid for a vehicle called New Shepard to fly abroad, the space mission, which will take place on July 20, is expected to last about 11 minutes, meaning it will cost $2.545 million per minute or $42,424 per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Blue Origin said the identity of the mysterious auction winner will soon be revealed, the company says the $28 million will be donated to Blue Origin&#8217;s foundation, Club for the Future, &#8220;to inspire future generations to pursue careers in STEM and help invent the future of life in space.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/12\/1005908618\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-space-auction-winner-28-million\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in NPR.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flight to space via Jeff Bezos&#8217; company Blue Origin, sold for $28 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6832,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}