Tom Hanks is not fascinated by Jeff Bezos’ provide to go to space.
Last month, “Star Trek” actor William Shatner flew to space on a suborbital Blue Origin flight after being invited by Bezos who based the corporate. But Shatner wasn’t the one family identify Bezos provided an astronaut expertise to. Actor Tom Hanks revealed Tuesday (Nov. 2) throughout an look on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that he was provided a journey to space and turned it down, saying that he was anticipated to pay fairly a bit of cash for the journey.
“Well yeah, provided I pay,” Hanks stated concerning the provide to launch on Blue Origin’s suborbital automobile New Shepard. “It costs like $28 million or something like that. And I’m doing good, Jimmy — I’m doing good — but I ain’t paying $28 million. You know what, we could simulate the experience of going to space right now.”
“I don’t need to spend 28 million bucks to do that,” he stated.
In images: William Shatner’s space launch with Blue Origin
Blue Origin has not revealed the going price for tickets aboard their suborbital space automobile. However, for the corporate’s inaugural human spaceflight in July, they held an public sale for one of many seats which ended up going for $28 million. The nameless public sale winner ended up having a schedule battle and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, whose father had received a ticket for him on a future flight within the public sale, flew of their place.
Since that first human flight, Blue Origin launched its second human spaceflight, with Shatner on board, on Oct. 13 from the corporate’s launch web site close to Van Horn, Texas. Shatner, nonetheless, flew without cost, courtesy of Bezos. Two of the opposite passengers on the flight bought their tickets, however the value they every paid shouldn’t be recognized. The fourth passenger was Blue Origin’s personal Audrey Powers, the corporate’s vice chairman of mission and flight operations.
Following this second profitable suborbital flight, Blue Origin goals to launch yet another crewed flight in 2021 with a number of extra deliberate for 2022, the company has said.
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