Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a ticket.
It's not going to be cheap. "Boss of Blue Origin, Bob Smith makes no secret that the cost of the ticket to travel aboard New Shepard and take part in a suborbital flight will be high.It does not yet give a precise price, but evokes" hundreds of thousands of dollars.
No surprise, however, as for a suborbital flight, Virgin Galactic has sold tickets at $ 250,000. However, the technology used is different since Virgin Galactic will use a carrier aircraft to drop his vessel with rocket engine at 15 km altitude.
For Blue Origin, the adventure with the New Shepard reusable launcher and its capsule will look more like a "traditional" launch. At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, Bob Smith said the cost of the ticket will be revised down over time to allow "middle-class" people to pay for it.
Currently, eleven unmanned test flights have been completed by Blue Origin. The next test flight should arrive quickly (from November), but it will probably be necessary to wait until next year for an inhabited flight, then to really talk about space tourism.
It's not going to be cheap. "Boss of Blue Origin, Bob Smith makes no secret that the cost of the ticket to travel aboard New Shepard and take part in a suborbital flight will be high.It does not yet give a precise price, but evokes" hundreds of thousands of dollars.
No surprise, however, as for a suborbital flight, Virgin Galactic has sold tickets at $ 250,000. However, the technology used is different since Virgin Galactic will use a carrier aircraft to drop his vessel with rocket engine at 15 km altitude.
For Blue Origin, the adventure with the New Shepard reusable launcher and its capsule will look more like a "traditional" launch. At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, Bob Smith said the cost of the ticket will be revised down over time to allow "middle-class" people to pay for it.
Currently, eleven unmanned test flights have been completed by Blue Origin. The next test flight should arrive quickly (from November), but it will probably be necessary to wait until next year for an inhabited flight, then to really talk about space tourism.
