Inside Blue Origin's Astronaut Village where space tourists sleep in Airstream trailers and hang out around a firepit: 'It's not a five-star hotel.'

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has a campsite for its passengers called Astronaut Village.

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• Blue Origin passengers sleep in Airstream trailers in the company's Astronaut Village before launch.
• Passenger Chris Boshuizen told Insider that the trailers reminded him of the Apollo era.
• There's a restaurant, a bar, and a firepit where passengers and staff congregate in the afternoons.

Space tourists about to blast 62 miles above Earth on board a rocket made by Jeff Bezos' company have to sleep in Airstream trailers on a campsite in the Texas desert.

Chris Boshuizen, who was on a Blue Origin flight with the "Star Trek" actor William Shatner and two other passengers in October, said he was based in a campsite called Astronaut Village in the days before the launch.

Astronaut Village is about 15 miles away from the launch site in Van Horn, Texas, Don DiCostanzo, a business owner who was Shatner's wingman before and after the spaceflight, told Insider in a previous interview.

Blue Origin's Astronaut Village.

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The campsite is down a long dirt path with "tight security," said DiCostanzo, who slept in a hotel room nearby, which he said was paid for by the company.

Boshuizen, an Australian former NASA engineer, described the rural Astronaut Village as a "perfect little campsite."

Each astronaut is given a silver Airstream trailer to sleep in before the flight. Boshuizen said the trailers' interiors were redone to be "more like a hotel than camper van." 

Trailers in Blue Origin's Astronaut Village.

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"It's not like a five-star hotel or anything," Boshuizen said. He added that the trailers reminded him of the Apollo era.