Share with friends and circle of friends with wechat scan QR code < / P > < p > < p > < p > < p > on July 21, Amazon founder and world's richest man Jeff Bezos took an 11 minute supersonic journey to space and returned safely on Tuesday, US local time, aboard the rocket and capsule system developed by his space company Blue origin. The flight marks the first manned mission of the blue origin new Shepard suborbital spacecraft, which plans to send more paying passengers into space in the coming months and years After the success of Bezos' first flight, mainstream media in Europe and the United States have commented on it one after another: < / P > < p > Reuters: help to open a new era of space tourism & nbsp < p > nine days ago, British billionaire Richard Branson made his first suborbital flight aboard the spaceship of Virgin Galactic, his space travel company. On Tuesday, Bezos also went to space and returned safely. These historic suborbital flights will help usher in a new era of space tourism. These two flights have brought confidence and injected new enthusiasm into the emerging commercial space tourism industry. UBS estimates that the industry will have a market value of $3bn a year over the next decade < p > Bezos founded blue origin in 2000. He said that the success of the first manned space flight means a small step towards the development of reusable aircraft. Blue origin plans to carry out two more manned flights of the new Shepard this year. Although the company has not yet determined its flight plan for the future, its ticket sales are approaching $100 million, and the demand is obviously very high At the same time, the launch represents that the competition for developing space tourism services will be more intense. In the "billionaire space race", Branson first crossed the earth's atmosphere and reached an altitude of 53 miles (86 kilometers) in his rocket powered, pilot driven aircraft. Bezos flew higher, and experts said it was the first unmanned space flight in the world to be carried out entirely by ordinary people. Elon Musk also plans to use the manned dragon spacecraft to put four ordinary people into orbit in September < p > Wall Street Journal: the origin of blue has a bigger space target < / P > < p > Bezos hopes that only 10 minutes of space flight can open a broad new era of human space travel. In Bezos's view, the origin of blue should have launched space tourism services several years ago. But by taking four passengers more than 100 kilometers into space and safely bringing them back to earth, blue origin shows the engineering and rocket technology it has been developing < p > as we all know, there are great risks in space flight, and the test times of manned spacecraft designed by various companies are far less than those of commercial aircraft. But by Tuesday, the new fully autonomous Shepard spacecraft had completed 15 flights in a row. The company employs people to develop rockets, engines and capsules and currently employs more than 3500 people at facilities in Florida, California and elsewhere < p > Blue origin is seeking attention in a space market that attracts new investors, and hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested in space start-ups and listed companies. For a long time, space flight has been dominated by government agencies. However, more private companies are trying to enter the field, and many analysts believe that the industry is likely to grow rapidly in the coming decades as technology advances. Morgan Stanley estimates that space related revenue could triple to more than $1 trillion by 2040 < p > the goal of blue origin is not only to provide space tourism services, but also a series of broader business goals, including winning contracts with NASA and other government agencies. Last year, blue Genesis participated in a bid to develop a manned lunar lander for NASA's return to the moon program, which seeks to return U.S. astronauts to the moon as soon as 2024. But NASA chose SpaceX, and blue origin protested the contract decision < p > Blue origin has been working on a rocket called the new Glenn for many years to put a payload into orbit. The company is also building new engines for the joint launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, to replace the current Russian engine. Bezos said Tuesday's launch will help blue origin and make space travel more like commercial aviation < p > Peng Bo: space exploration will benefit everyone < / P > < p > Blue origin, a space company owned by Bezos, is trying to reduce the cost of space travel through reusable launch vehicles. Of course, "cheaper" is only a relative concept. In the near future, space tourism is likely to become a playground for the super rich to experience weightlessness. But the knowledge gained from space tourism will gradually popularize it. NASA reports that the development of commercial launch systems has reduced the cost of reaching low earth orbit by 20 times < p > the easier it is to enter space, the easier it is to engage in profitable and innovative space activities. Over the past decade, investment in space commerce has exploded. Research by economist Matthew Weinzierl shows that investment in start-up space companies rose from less than $500 million a year from 2001 to 2008 to about $2.5 billion a year in 2015 and 2016. Brycetech, a space analysis company, reported that in 2019, the company raised $5.7 billion, up from $3.5 billion in 2018. This trend will continue < p > these start-ups are engaged in a series of activities, including space travel (such as blue origin), providing more useful and high-quality images of the earth, establishing launch and satellite communication capabilities, improving supply chain, creating safety facilities in space, developing asteroid mining and colonization capabilities of the moon and Mars, etc. These venture capital funds usually come from very rich individuals, such as Bezos, musk and Branson, who have enough money to pay the high cost of entering the market. Even if their investment in space business fails, they can afford to lose huge sums of money < p > the benefits of space commerce - new drugs, cheaper manufactured goods, faster Internet in remote parts of the world, new agricultural methods, will take time to reach everyone. But it will definitely benefit more people in the end. Bezos made a fortune by creating Amazon, which changed the retail industry in the United States. His foresight, hard work and the risks he took along the way paid off handsomely. According to the Bloomberg index of billionaires, he ?
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