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In March, the chairman of the Bezos Expeditions team, a company run by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, said the company was preparing to launch two spacewalks between the International Space Station and a U.S. space plane.
On Monday, the company announced that it had plans to build an even bigger tourist-carrying space station. In a video posted on Medium, Thomas Stafford, the first commander of the space station, talks about the differences between the station and the one the company will be designing.
“There is an incredible quality to being able to see into another world,” he says. “Let me give you a story I shared with my family, my three children. We were driving one morning in Seattle. As I was pulling to the side of the freeway, I looked up to look at the sun, and we saw it so far above us, and then it got closer and I was able to see with the telescope on the dashboard how much the horizon was ahead of us. That’s it, it’s perspective. That’s why I believe in the space program.”
As we all know, these are the kinds of trips that are still a far-off dream for people like him and me. But someday soon, Jeff Bezos is going to take about 85,000 of us to outer space.
