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I will be live tweeting Blue Origin's final auction round for a seat on New Shepard's first passenger spaceflight.

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The most recent high bid was $4.8 million. Final guesses on where it ends up?

Again, the name of the winner will not be released today, but Blue Origin will reveal their identity in the next few weeks.

Blue Origin says that RR Auction, the partner hosting the auction, typically sees "a handful of bidders" for multi-million dollar items but tripled the size of their phone bank for today due to demand.

Blue Origin's @arianecornell noted that the company will "contact the most competitive bidders from today to offer them access" to opportunities on later New Shepard flights.

@arianecornell RR Auction says there are "more than 20 bidders" today

@arianecornell Bidding opens at $4.9 million

@arianecornell $5.1 million

@arianecornell $5.4 million

@arianecornell $5.6 million

@arianecornell $6 million

@arianecornell $7 million

@arianecornell $8 million

@arianecornell $8.5 million

@arianecornell $8.8 million

@arianecornell $9 million

@arianecornell $9.5 million

@arianecornell $11 million

@arianecornell $12 million

@arianecornell $14 million

@arianecornell $15 million

@arianecornell $16 million

@arianecornell $17 million

@arianecornell $18 million

@arianecornell $19 million

@arianecornell $21 million

@arianecornell $22 million

@arianecornell $25 million

@arianecornell A bit of a pause at $26 million, looking for $27 million

@arianecornell $27 million

@arianecornell $29 million

@arianecornell Correction: $28 million. RR Auction briefly showed $29 million but noted they're looking for that now.