Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin Announces Space Travel in 2018

BENGALURU: For all the Star war fanatics, here is something interesting that you may want to dwell in; fantasies can be transformed into live experiences. Jeff Bezos recently expounded on Space Company Blue Origin, their new venture expects to undertake crewed test flights of its reusable suborbital New Shepherd Vehicle. This novel initiative is expected to take wings the next year and begin flying paying passengers latest by 2018. Blue Origin is an aerospace developer and manufacturer, a space tourism company that plans to offer suborbital flights in its New Shepard space capsule, reports ET. 

There is some more good news, for all the astronomy enthusiasts; here is a chance to see our planet earth from closely. Blue Origin is expecting to erect six New Shepard vehicles that will be designed to autonomously fly six passengers. The vehicles will be able to fly to more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) above Earth, high enough to encounter a few moments of weightlessness. This will enable the space tourists to witness our planet set against the blackness of space.

"We'll probably fly test pilots in 2017, and if we're successful then I'd imagine placing paying astronauts on in 2018," Bezos said at the sprawling plant south of Seattle. Bezos further elucidated he had studied and thought about rockets since he was five years old. “I never expected to have the resources to start a space company,” he said. “I won a lottery ticket called Amazon.com.”

Blue Origin is not yet settled on a price for rides, but Bezos said it will be competitive with what other companies such as Richard Bradsons Virgin Galactic are charging for similar flights.

Bezos said he has invested more than $500 million US in Blue Origin, which is on a track to double its staff to about 1,200 within the next year. He said that he would continue to foot the company's bills for as long as necessary. Bezos expects Blue Origin to become profitable at some time. “I am optimistic it will be a healthy business. It is very gratifying that world’s premier companies are choosing.”

It may be recalled that the Blue Origins first reusable rocket was lost in a test flight in April 2015 though the capsule safely landed the ground. A second ship has made two test flights and Blue Origin is in the process of assembling its next two vehicles, which for the first time include windows for paying passengers.

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