Passengers will be able to float around the cabin for about 4 minutes during a typical flight.Īdding a second stage would allow the rocket to put small satellites into orbit although the company’s New Glenn vehicle is the more likely candidate for such duty, Bezos said.Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin in September 2020.
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It has six seats in a horizontal position, large windows and computer monitors. The New Shepard crew capsule was on display at the symposium. We’re going to put humans on this vehicle when we’re ready and not a second sooner.” We’re going to make it as safe as we can make it,” he said.
It could be.”īezos said there’s no rigid schedule for development of the New Shepard propulsion system, and he’s constantly reminding his team they’re not involved in a race. “I don’t think it’s going to be 2017 at this point. “We’re going to go through the test program, and we’ll put humans on it when we’re happy,” he said. If we can reduce the cost of launch by a factor of 10 or 100, it will be a completely new world - a golden age of space exploration."īlue Origin had been planning to start testing crewed flights this year, but that probably won’t happen, SpaceNews reported. "Most things you now do in space have a high cost of admission. "I want to see an entrepreneurial explosion in space," he said. He said his space tourists will need only an hour of training before flight. Unlike Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which plans to go to Mars, Blue Origin will focus on sub-orbital flights, Bezos said. I have thrown plenty of parties that no one came to, but I don't think that will be case." "The demand for this will be up to the customers. To make that model work, we have to do other things, so satellite customers will cover some of the costs in the early innings," Bezos said. "My singular focus is to have people in space. Read: Boeing Unveils Concept Images For Cislunar Habitat, Deep Space Transport Vehicle
Russian space tourist Dennis Tito bought a ticket aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2001 for a reported $20 million.īezos told reporters he wants to make space travel as common as airline flights, hoping to bring the cost down by 99 percent with the use of reusable rockets, the Colorado Springs, Colorado, Gazette reported. Virgin Galactic is selling space tourism tickets for $250,000, which includes three days of training and a 2 1/2 hour flight, while NASA got a deal from SpaceX for flights to the moon, $74.7 million for five astronauts. Read: Asteroids Are Flying Past Earth More Often Than Usual “It’s very important that Blue Origin stand on its own feet and be a profitable, sustainable enterprise.
“My business model right now for Blue Origin is that I sell about $1 billion a year of Amazon stock and I use it to invest in Blue Origin,” he said. Eleven-minute rides for space tourists are planned to start next year, he said, with an eye toward making the company a profitable long-term business though ticket sales have yet to begin.
Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Wednesday.īezos, who is worth $75 billion, said he expects to spend $2.5 billion to develop a rocket that can lift satellites – and eventually people – into orbit. A billion dollars of Amazon stock is being sold annually to fund the Blue Origin rocket company, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told the 33rd U.S.
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