Blue Origin Pitches Space Tourists Package Deal to Ride Orbital Rocket

Blue Origin hopes people use the company to get two different sets of astronaut wings. Blue Origin, which is run by billionaire Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is developing a reusable rocket-and-capsule combo called New Shepard to take people (and experiments) on brief trips to suborbital space. If you want to be one of the first to ride New Glenn to Earth orbit, you should pony up for a seat aboard New Shepard, Blue Origin representatives said.

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