Blue Origin aces another tourist mission to edge of space
Billionaire Jeff Bezos' aerospace venture Blue Origin on Thursday yet again successfully launched six people to the edge of space and brought them back safely.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos' aerospace venture Blue Origin on Thursday yet again successfully launched six people to the edge of space and brought them back safely.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space firm Blue Origin has announced plans to build a commercial space station called Orbital Reef by the second half of this decade.
New Shepard, built by Bezos' company Blue Origin, is designed to serve the burgeoning market for space tourism.
The shares sold by Bezos were worth more than $3 billion, priced between $3,102.85 and $3,183.26 a piece, at the time of sale.
The rocket was launched on Wednesday from a Blue Origin’s test site located in Texas. It soared over 60 miles into the upper atmosphere.