KENT, Washington: Space company Blue Origin will sell a seat to the general public on its first crewed flight to the edge of space, scheduled for July.

The seat will be auctioned to the highest bidder.

The flight departs from the company’s spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, approximately 120 miles southeast of El Paso.

Blue Origin, founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, says the bids will remain sealed until May 19th. After that, those who wish to participate can view all bids online.

An online auction will close the bid on June 12th and the winner will be announced.

“The award will be donated to the Blue Origin Foundation Club for the Future to inspire future generations to pursue careers in STEM and to invent the future of life in space,” the company announced.

Blue Origins has set physical requirements that the winner must meet. The space tourists must be physically fit, weigh between 110 and 223 pounds, and be between 5 and 6 feet and 4 inches tall.

In addition, the winner must be able to withstand up to 3 G on take-off and 5.5 G on descent.

In April, Blue Origin completed its final test flight before a flight crew was launched into space. Future plans include developing a space tourism company that will take the public to space.

“You don’t have to be a NASA astronaut, you don’t have to be a trained engineer. We want artists and poets, teachers and scientists,” said Kevin Sproge, New Shepard director of space architecture, United Press International’s Blue Origin.

The crew capsule is designed with noise-dampening materials to reduce the roar during flight, as well as indoor temperature thermometers, crew display panels and speakers with a microphone and push-to-talk button on each seat.

The world’s first space tourist was California businessman Dennis Tito, who paid the Russian Space Agency $ 20 million to become the first space tourist in 2001.

Tito was brought to the International Space Station for his stay in space before the Russians brought him back to Earth.