Buckle Up, Space Tourists! Blue Origin on Track to Launch People Next Year

After last week's successful "in-flight escape test" of its reusable New Shepard vehicle, Blue Origin is just a year or so away from launching people to suborbital space, company representatives said. "This test got us one step closer to human spaceflight," Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson said here today (Oct. 13) at the 2016 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS). New Shepard consists of a rocket and a capsule, which Blue Origin is developing to fly people an