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Related: About this forumBlue Origin Wants to Launch a Person Into Space by the End of This Year
By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer | January 23, 2019 03:57pm ET
Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket completed its 10th uncrewed test flight today (Jan. 23) during a smooth launch from chilly West Texas but the company is eyeing a crewed flight later this year, according to statements made during today's launch broadcast.
That timeline is becoming clearer after a December road trip brought the company's fourth rocket, the first rated for human passengers, to its launch facility in West Texas. New Shepard is the company's reusable, suborbital rocket designed for space tourism flights; the company is also designing a larger, heavy-lift rocket called New Glenn, which is scheduled to debut in 2021.
"So exciting to think that human spaceflight is just around the corner [for Blue Origin]," Ariane Cornell, the company's director of astronaut and orbital sales, said during the broadcast of today's launch. "We're aiming for the end of this year, by the end of this year, but as we have said before, we are not in a rush. We want to take our time, we want to do this right."[Launch Photos! Blue Origin's New Shepard Soars on NS-10]
It's not the first time the company, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has floated a possible timeline. Previous goals included a human launch within a year, announced in December 2017, and a crewed test flight by the end of 2017, announced a year before that.
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Blue Origin Wants to Launch a Person Into Space by the End of This Year (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jan 2019
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,012 posts)1. I can suggest a candidate for that launch...
Sanity Claws
(21,866 posts)2. Me too. Particularly if it is one-way.
Boxerfan
(2,533 posts)3. Can we nominate someone? Maybe a 1 way ticket?
I mean the cleanup from Cheetoh dust & hair follicles would be expensive-but the ratings!