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  • Jeff Bezos’ Spaceship For Tourists Is Quite Larny

    30 Mar 2017 by Sloane Hunter in Design, Tech/Sci, Travel, Vibe
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    Every seat has a window.

    That seems to be the selling point for Blue Origin’s New Shepard, a suborbital space vehicle that will offer the chance for space tourists to fly high above the planet.

    The spaceship’s backer, Jeff Bezos, emphasised that New Shepard actually “boasts the largest windows of any craft to fly to space,” reports Mashable.

    Illustrations of the capsule do, in fact, show that if you had to opt for Blue Origin’s space travel package, you would be in for a cushy ride. Check:

    While Blue Origin has yet to fly anyone aboard their space system, they are working towards the end goal and have launched multiple tests, the last one in October of last year.

    The company, which was founded by Bezos in 2000, could start flying people on test missions by the end of this year. Here are the deets of those goals:

    One day, Blue Origin hopes to fly paying customers up to about 62 miles (100 kilometers) in altitude, bringing them to suborbital space before coming back down to Earth under a set of parachutes.

    It’s not yet clear how much these trips will cost, but if it’s anything like the pricing laid out for other suborbital space trips, it won’t be cheap. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is selling seats aboard its SpaceShipTwo for about $250,000, though that company hasn’t yet started flying customers yet either.

    Blue Origin has plans to manufacture and fly multiple rockets, including a heavy-lift launcher that could bring people and payloads to the distant reaches of the solar system one day.

    And the end, end, end goal? To have millions of people living and working in space.

    [source:mashable]

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