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Behind Blue Origin bids: RR Auction vets viers for New Shepard seat [i]Up until a month ago, if RR Auction had announced it was selling a spacecraft seat, it would have been doing just that — offering a seat made for or removed from a spacecraft. The Boston-based auction firm has for 10 years now been organizing bi-annual sales dedicated to the relics of the space race, from astronaut-autographed photos to equipment that was flown to the moon. The spacecraft seat RR Auction is selling now, though, is unlike anything that the company has sold before. It is not auctioning the chance to sit where an astronaut once sat, but rather the opportunity to become an astronaut by occupying the first commercially-available seat on Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket set to launch on July 20. Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark will join the auction winner on the flight.[/i]
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