Extra Ticket for <br />Suborbital Flight <br />With Jeff Bezos , Auctions for $28 Million.<br />CNN Business reports that a seat on board Blue Origin's New Shepard sold for <br />$28 million at auction. .<br />The auction kicked off last month for a seat on New Shepard's inaugural crewed mission.<br />7,600 people from 159 countries had reportedly registered and were able to bid in the auction.<br />The name of the winning bidder, who <br />will join Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark Bezos <br />on the flight, was not revealed.<br />CNN reports that the flight is scheduled to blast off on July 20 from Blue Origin's facilities in the West Texas town of Van Horn.<br />It will be the first manned flight aboard the fully autonomous New Shepard vehicle.<br />Since 2015, the New Shepard has <br />completed 15 uncrewed test flights. .<br />Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 and has <br />spent nearly a decade testing New Shepard.<br />its 60-foot-tall rocket and capsule system.
