Now, any Indian citizen can register for a chance to fly to Space

US-based Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA), in collaboration with Blue Origin, on Monday announced India as a partner nation in their human spaceflight programme for citizens from countries who have sent few or no astronauts to space. SERA will offer citizens from across the world six seats on a future mission of New Shepard, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin’s reusable suborbital rocket.

New Shepard will fly the selected astronauts on an 11-minute journey past the Kármán line. The Karman line is the boundary separating Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. The line is neither sharp nor well defined but is often taken to encircle Earth at an altitude between 80 to 100 km (50 to 62 miles) above mean sea level. Astronauts will experience several minutes of weightlessness before making a controlled descent back to the landing pad.