Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space

Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space
Blue Origin could charge $200k-$300k for a trip to space

How much would you pay to leave our dumpster fire of a world for just a few minutes? Blue Origin is considering charging $200,000 to $300,000 according to a Reuters report. For that price, passengers would get a seat on Blue Origin’s New Shepard, the commercial space vehicle from Jeff Bezos’ rocket company.

The rocket would take passengers to suborbital space to experience weightlessness and see the curvature of the Earth. This is done autonomously and can hold six passengers. Parachutes will return the capsule back to solid ground.

This claim comes from two people with knowledge of the space program’s pricing, Reuters says.

Passengers have time to start saving. Ferrying passengers to space is still a ways off for Blue Origin. The company has completed eight test flights including landing the rocket vertically, but has yet to strap a human into one of the seats. That’s apparently coming within weeks, one employee is quoted on saying in the Reuters’ report.

Blue Origin isn’t the only one selling tickets to space. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic says it has sold about 650 $250,000 tickets to space aboard its craft; launch dates have yet to be announced for that trip too.

Bezos has larger ambitions than just being an amusement ride. In May, speaking at the Space Development Conference in Los Angeles with the inimitable Alan Boyle, Bezos chatted about the idea of making the moon a center for heavy industry, which he thinks will help conserve resources here on Earth. When the time comes, he hopes that lunar residence and industry will be a shared privilege, with countries working together in a “lunar village” and combining their strengths rather than testing them against one another.

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