New Delhi, 7/6 (AO Bureau): Elon Musk, the co-founder of electric carmaker Tesla, has publicly expressed his desire to travel to space several times. However, so far he has not made any concrete announcement about his space journey. At the same time, Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder of e-commerce and tech company Amazon, has announced that he will go to space with his brother on 20 July 2021. In other words, he will go on a space journey on the 52nd anniversary of man’s first step on the moon. Let us tell you that Neil Armstrong took the first step on the moon on 20 July 1969.
Jeff Bezos named the spacecraft NS-14
Jeff Bezos will travel in space with the aircraft of his company Blue Origin. Bezos has already announced that people will get space tourism through his company. His company’s spacecraft New Shepard Space Tourism Rocket has successfully tested 14 times. The company has been successful in getting this spacecraft to land and launch. Bezos has named this spacecraft NS-14. The company tested the new booster and upgraded capsule during launch testing.
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Passenger amenities have been taken care of in the capsule
Passenger amenities have also been taken care of in the upgraded version of the capsule. The capsule includes a push-to-talk system for astronauts to talk to mission control, and a new crew alert system at each seat. Not only this, the capsule also includes cushion lining to reduce noise and air-condition and humidity control systems. New Shepard is a completely autonomous system. Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is competing with Bezos’s company Blue Origin. Started in the year 2000, Blue Origin is headquartered in Washington. At the same time, in May 2020, Space-X has become the first private company to take humans to the International Space Station.