While the diminutive New Shepard is meant to launch people on brief flights to the edge of space, the mega New Glenn will be capable of hauling cargo and eventually crew into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, possibly beginning late next year.īlue Origin also has its eyes on the Moon. Nineteen space advocacy and education groups are getting $US1 million each as a result, with the rest to be used by Blue Origin's Club for the Future for its own education effort. The fourth seat on the upcoming flight was auctioned off for $US28 million. AMAZON founder Jeff Bezos has landed safely after blasting into space on board a rocket ship built by his company Blue Origin.Bezos and his brother li. The company hasn't disclosed the cost of a ride. ( AP: Blue Origin ) What's next?īlue Origin is expected to open ticket sales soon and has already lined up some of the unsuccessful auction bidders. The AP is solely responsible for all content.Blue Origin's New Shepard crew capsule descends from space during a test. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education.
Blue Origin was unsuccessful in its bid for the job. Blue Origin said it doesn’t tolerate harassment or discrimination and stood by its safety record.īezos’ company is also challenging a NASA contract award to SpaceX for providing a lunar lander that will return astronauts to the moon in a few years. Last week, more than 20 current and former Blue Origin employees accused the company, cased in Kent, Wash., of having a toxic work environment and not adhering to proper safety protocols. That seat cost $28 million Blue Origin isn’t divulging any other ticket prices.Ī fourth seat on the flight is going to Blue Origin’s vice president of mission and flight operations. The two took part in the auction for a seat on the first flight. I said, 'I want to become an astronaut.' But nobody.
JEFF BEZOS TOUCHES SPACE ABOARD BLUE ORIGIN ROCKET SOFTWARE
He’s currently the host and executive producer of a History Channel show, “The UnXplained.”Īlso flying with Shatner: a former NASA engineer who founded a nanosatellite company and the co-founder of a software company specializing in clinical research. 18-Year-Old to Fly on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Rocket Will Be the Youngest Person to Travel to Space 'I got a hold of NASA four times. He also portrayed Captain Kirk in seven movies, directing one of them.
Shatner played the role of the USS Enterprise’s commander for three seasons, from 1966 to 1969. Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson celebrated on Sunday after successfully going to suborbital space on a crewed flight. What a miracle,” Shatner said in a statement.īusiness Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic crew go to the edge of space and back I’m taking the opportunity to see it for myself. “I’ve heard about space for a long time now. An auction winner paid more than 28 million for an 11-minute ride into space alongside Jeff Bezos, on a reusable rocket launched by his space company, Blue Origin. Shatner will break that upper threshold by eight years. He took along his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk - the youngest and oldest to fly in space. Three months after billionaire US businessman Jeff Bezos soared into space aboard a rocketship built by his Blue Origin company, the craft is set on Wednesday to take another all-civilian crew on a suborbital ride, this time with Star Trek actor William Shatner in the lead role. This will be Blue Origin’s second launch of a crew.īezos was on the debut flight July 20. Blue Origin and SpaceX’s capsules are fully automated, but the passengers must pass medical screenings and, among other things, be able to quickly climb several flights of steps at the launch tower to get to the capsule - or out of it in an emergency. Virgin Galactic’s ship launches from an airplane and requires two pilots. Business Jeff Bezos launches new era of space travel with Blue Origin rideįollowing Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson to the edge of space, billionaire Jeff Bezos ushered in the era of lower-cost commercial spaceflight - or so many scientists and would-be astro-tourists hope.
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