UAE space tourist Hamish Harding comes back down to Earth Last year, a Scottish man set up a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign to send a flat-Earther on a Virgin Galactic flight. Five per cent of the public that said they used to believe that the planet was round but were beginning to have doubts.Ī survey of 2,000 adults by the Datafolha Institute in 2019 revealed that 7 per cent of Brazilians believe the planet is flat. The price of a New Shepard flight ticket has not been revealed by Blue Origin, although its competitor Virgin Galactic charges $450,000 per passenger.Ī 2018 YouGov survey of 8,000 Americans showed that 2 per cent of the US population believes that the Earth is flat. Looking out of the window was the best bit of this mission.” “Because it’s pretty convincing up there. “I'd love to send the most committed flat-Earther in the world into space on what I’ve just done with Blue Origin and see what he thinks,” said Mr Harding, who is the chairman of Action Aviation, which provides aircraft brokerage services to business jet and helicopter owners.

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