Blue Origin Plans To Start Selling Suborbital Spaceflight Tickets Next Year (spacenews.com)

Blue Origin expects to start flying people on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle "soon" and start selling tickets for commercial flights next year, a company executive said June 19, according to a report on SpaceNews.com. From the report: Speaking at the Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit here, as the keynote of a half-day track on earth and space applications, Blue Origin Senior Vice President Rob Meyerson offered a few updates on the development of the company's suborbital vehicle. "We plan to start flying our first test passengers soon," he said after showing a video of a previous New Shepard flight at the company's West Texas test site. All of the New Shepard flights to date have been without people on board, but the company has said in the past it would fly its personnel on the vehicle in later tests. He also offered a timetable for selling tickets. "We expect to start selling tickets in 2019," he said, but did not disclose a price. Further reading: Gizmodo.

Comments

One word: Amazing

[Anonymous Coward]

This really is the most amazing news I have heard in months. Kudos to Bezos in pushing humanity forward.

Re:One word: Amazing

[d0rp]

When commercial air flight was first starting out, it was also only the rich that could afford it, but that has obviously changed. It seems reasonable that over time the same thing will happen to space flights.