The company of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, together with Sierra Space, will build their commercial space station in low Earth orbit by 2025-2030, according to the project's website .
The station will be named "Orbital Reef" and will be a "mixed-use business park in space" for researchers, media, space tourists, businessmen and other people. The new project of the founder of Amazon will preserve the "legacy of the ISS", while adding innovative developments from the field of microgravity to it.
"For more than sixty years, NASA and other space agencies have been developing orbital space flights and space housing, preparing us for commercial business. It will be launched this decade," said Brent Sherwood, senior vice president of advanced development programs at Blue Origin.
It is noted that the station will be equipped with the necessary residential, scientific and multifunctional modules, as well as equipment. Their number will increase as the market increases. Up to ten people will be able to live and work on the "Orbital Reef" "for the benefit of the Earth".
"As a former astronaut, I was waiting for the moment when work and life in space would become available to more people around the world. This moment has come," said former NASA astronaut and Sierra Space president Janet Cavandi.
On July 20, Jeff Bezos made a 10-minute flight into space on the ship New Shepard from Blue Origin. Along with him on board were his brother Mark, 82-year-old former pilot Wally Funk and 18-year-old high school graduate Oliver Damen. The ship rose to a height of 107 kilometers above the Earth.
Marina Sovina
