Comment on Inside Blue Origin's Astronaut Village where space tourists sleep in Airstream trailers and hang out around a firepit: 'It's not

Inside Blue Origin's Astronaut Village where space tourists sleep in Airstream trailers and hang out around a firepit: 'It's not

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has a campsite for its passengers called Astronaut Village.Blue Origin/Joe Raedle/Getty Images Blue Origin passengers sleep in Airstream trailers in the company's Astronaut Village before launch. Passenger Chris Boshuizen told Insider that the trailers reminded him of the Apollo era. There's a restaurant, a bar, and a firepit where passengers and staff congregate in the afternoons. Space tourists about to blast 62 miles above Earth on board a rocket made by Jeff Bezos' company have to sleep in Airstream trailers on a campsite in the Texas desert.Chris Boshuizen, who was on a Blue Origin flight with the "Star Trek" actor William Shatner and two other passengers in October, said he was based in a campsite called Astronaut Village in the days before the launch.Astronaut Village is about 15 miles away from the launch site in Van Horn, Texas, Don DiCostanzo, a business owner who was Shatner's wingman before and after the spaceflight, told Insider in a previous interview.Blue Origin's Astronaut Village.Blue OriginThe campsite is down a long dirt path with "tight security," said DiCostanzo, who slept in a hotel room nearby, which he said was paid for by the company.Boshuizen, an Australian former NASA engineer, described the rural Astronaut Village as a "perfect little campsite."Each astronaut is given a silver Airstream trailer to sleep in before the flight.

 

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