have three companies that that can give access to humans into space without being involved with nasa for the first time hernandez said i think that that is a great achievement what he would like to see is more efforts to include diverse backgrounds at the top levels of management in these emerging commercial space firms and in the cosmos he called on bezos branson and spacexs elon musk to in each flight designate one seat to go so that it could fulfill a purpose this could be as simple as sending artists poets regular people who meet the general physical requirements and more than just geeky engineers to experience space billionaire jeff bezos rings a bell before boarding blue origins new shepard rocket near van horn texas july 20 2021 blue origin via reuters virgin galactic states on its website that its mission is to open space to everybody and has emphasized that its future astronauts come from diverse backgrounds but are united by a shared passion for the democratization of space travel still its tickets cost some 250000 branson has also said he hopes their work encourages and inspires the future generation i really hope that there will be millions of kids all over the world who will be captivated and inspired about the possibility of them going to space one day he stated recent dutch high school graduate oliver daemen floats weightlessly in the capsule with billionaire businessman jeff bezos his brother mark and aviator wally funk a show more blue origin via reuters blue origin has launched a charitable foundation club for the future which distributed 1 million grants to 19 spacebased charities from the funds raised through the sale of blue origins first commercial ticket to space club for the future has the goal of inspiring young people to pursue careers in stem fields and help invent the future of life in space more jeff bezos says hes curious how space is going to change me ahead of historic flight like many astronauts have reported hernandez said seeing the the suns rays hit the earths atmosphere clearly delineated from space scared and awed him and made him appreciate the planet with a new urgency in addition the farmworkerturnedastronaut also said that he was hit with an inexplicable awe almost immediately after arriving in space as he flew over north america and saw the continent out his window what struck me in awe is that you can see canada the us and mexico but you cant see where canada ended and the us began you cant see where the us ended and mexico began he said i said wow borders are humanmade concepts designed to separate us and how sad because from this perspective were just one down there now that we have this space tourism industry going i think it should be a requirement that every world leader take a trip so they can see what i saw he said and ill guarantee you