The company wants to reduce the cost of spaceflight.United Launch Alliance, a joint Lockheed Martin-Boeing venture, is planning to use Blue Origin’s engines for its next-generation Vulcan rocket. A chunk of Blue Origin’s business will come from selling rocket engines to other companies.If that mission goes well, the company says it could start blasting passengers into space six at a time by 2018. Blue Origin plans to relaunch its New Shepard reusable rocket again in the near future, The New York Timesreports. It wants to start flying tourists by 2018.

The newspaper reported the crew wouldn’t be paying passengers just yet. The company is hoping to launch a manned spacecraft in 2017, according to The Guardian. Blue Origin wants to send humans to space next year.While building space infrastructure will take decades, Bezos said, “This is how it starts.But scant other details have previously been known about Blue Origin. He also estimated that Blue Origin has approached some $100 million in private ticket sales already. “When you go to space and see how fragile it is, you want to take care of it even more, and that's what this is about,” Bezos said. The billionaire said Earth is “the only good planet” in our solar system, and “we’ve sent robotic probes to all of them.” “We're going to build a road to space so that our kids and their kids can build the future, and we need to do that, we need to do that to solve the problems here on Earth,” Bezos added. “Big things start small, but you can tell when you're onto something, and this is important.” “What we're doing is the first step of something big, and I know what that feels like, I did it three decades ago, nearly three decades ago, with Amazon,” Bezos said. Jul 20, 12:55 PM EDT Bezos discusses ambitious plans for Blue Origin’s future Link Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Email this articleīezos revealed what the astronauts spoke about as they were in the capsule ahead of the launch, saying he told his crew mates that the flight is not just about “adventure” but also the start of “something big.”

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