Jeff Bezos saidBlue Origin had sold nearly $100 million worth of tickets for future trips tospace .- "The demand is very, very high," Bezos said Tuesday, after he flew to the edge of space.
- It's not clear how much Blue Origin will charge for its tickets, which went on sale Tuesday.
Jeff Bezos said Blue Origin had sold almost $100 million worth of tickets for future tourist trips to space.
The $4 on Tuesday became $4, traveling aboard a $4 built by $4, the spaceflight company he founded in 2000.
Blue Origin officially $4 in the morning before Bezos' flight, and in his $4, Bezos said the company was "approaching $100 million in private sales already."
It's not clear if the company sold any private tickets before it officially opened sales on Tuesday. Insider contacted Blue Origin for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
"The demand is very, very high," Bezos said. "So we're going to keep after that, because we really do want to practice with this vehicle.
"We're going to have to build more boosters to fly more frequently, and we're going to be doing that and working on the operational things we need to do," Bezos told reporters.
$4Bezos and Blue Origin didn't disclose seat prices for the journey, which travels 62 miles above the Earth's surface.
A seat next to Bezos on New Shepard went for $4 in June. The winner pulled out due to "scheduling conflicts," and $4, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands who also placed a bid, took the seat instead. He was Blue Origin's first paying customer.
Virgin Galactic's $4, and includes a spacesuit. Company founder $4 on July 11 for Virgin's first crewed mission in its $4.
Initially, Blue Origin wants to fly New Shepard between 25 and 100 times, Bezos said in the press briefing. Once the
Blue Origin wants to fly the New Shepard rocket twice more this year, Bezos told the media.
"We're going to build a road to space so that their kids and our kids can build the future ... We need to do that to solve the problems here on earth," he said.