Billionaire race to bring people into space

The space billionaire's race began to heat up when his Blue Origin Space Company, Amazon E-Commerce CEO, revealed the goal of bringing the first passengers into space in 2018 .

Speaking at a Colorado-US conference from December 18 to December 20, Jeff Ashby, a Blue Origin official, confirmed that another year, the company will make the flight. In October of this year, Mr. Bezos once decided that Blue Origin will bring tourists into orbit "within the next 18 months". Flight crew test flights are scheduled to begin in 2018.

The Blue Origin company successfully tested the cruise ship into space.(Photo: BLUE ORIGIN).

Also in October, the British billionaire announced that within six months, he would travel into space on his ship owned Virgin Galactic Company. The company has set a milestone for visitors to the end of 2018. The race also features the billionaire Elon Musk, who is expected to unveil the Dragon ship to transport astronauts next year according to a contract with US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA).

Last week, Blue Origin released a video recording the scene of the company's spaceship in the successful test flight on December 12 (flying to orbit and returning to Earth). Called Crew Capsule 2.0 , the ship has reached a height of 99km. In addition, the rocket can reuse Bezos' New Shepard , which has launched 7 times, in which 6 successful landings.

Not to be outdone, Mr. Musk's reusable can also land successfully 20 times during the past 2 years. In 2017, Space X made the latest 18 test flights, which took place in November, compared to 8 flights in 2016.

The field of space became more exciting after NASA called on scientists to study the effects of long-term space flight for astronauts' health. This is a step to prepare people for a trip to Mars, expected to last up to 3 years.

Such studies will help NASA lay the groundwork for deep in-flight flights, which can last up to 400 days, as well as understanding, preventing, predicting, treating, and mitigating potential effects. health to astronauts.