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Blue Origin still holding off on New Shepard ticket sales
« on: January 09, 2019, 02:06:45 pm »
Space News by Jeff Foust — January 8, 2019

Blue Origin expects to start flying people on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle early this year, but has yet to start selling tickets or even establish a ticket price for future commercial flights.

In a panel discussion at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics SciTech Forum in San Diego Jan. 8, Ariane Cornell, head of astronaut strategy and sales at Blue Origin, said the company is eager to start flying people on New Shepard but that it places a greater emphasis on safety over schedule.

“We’re not selling tickets yet. We have not selected a price yet, despite what you might have read,” she said, a reference to a report last summer that claimed the company was planning to charge between $200,000 and $300,000 per seat. “We don’t have a price yet. We haven’t determined when we’re going to sell tickets.”

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