Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos wants to send you to space on a Blue Origin rocket, and the data gathered during those little trips on the New Shepard to the border between Earth and space will help develop the technology that will one day carry humans throughout our solar system and beyond.
“Another thing that you really need to shrink costs is practice,” Bezos said Tuesday at the 2017 SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C. “That’s one of the reasons we did New Shepard first. New Shepard is a suborbital tourism vehicle. And that mission is so important for us because that’s a mission that can be flown many many times a year. We will get so much practice.”
The U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics estimated in 2003 that up to 82 percent of Americans had flown in an airplane, and Bezos wants going to space to become as common as hopping on a flight from one city to another.
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