Blue Origin wants to take visitors to space in 2019

Blue Origin said it was ready to start taking visitors to space in April 2019.

Last Thursday, Bob Smith - Managing Director of Blue Origin spoke at the National Space Space Council in Virginia . "In the next 18 months, we will bring people to space ." Bob Smith said in the CNN article "They're not astronauts . they're just ordinary citizens."

The plan to bring people to the right space until 2019 was delayed according to their progress.

According to IFL Science, Blue Origin began testing flights from 2017 and is expected to be completed this year. Therefore, the plan to bring people to the right space until 2019 was delayed according to their progress. If Elon Musk proceeds on its schedule, Blue Origin may be able to surpass SpaceX, as SpaceX expects to bring two visitors to the Moon by the end of 2018.

Blue Origin plans to complete pilot and engineer flight tests next year, before officially starting to bring people to space. Accordingly, the company will launch New Shepard reuse missiles, unmanned missiles that have been successfully launched and landed into space five times.

The flights will only stop at the orbit, basically flying straight up and straight down. On the top of the rocket there will be a passenger compartment, when going to the passenger space will separate from the rocket and land with parachute. While the rocket will land on the ground with propulsion.

All flights will last about 11 minutes, but the cost for each flight is still unknown. If the Blue Origin plan succeeds, it will be a great blow for companies like Virgin Galactic, which has been trying for years to implement the space travel plan but has been delayed many times. . Reportedly, a Virgin Galactic travel ticket costs $ 250,000 (about 5.6 billion).

The flights will only stop at the orbit, basically flying straight up and straight down.

Blue Origin also has big plans, the company is developing a rocket called New Glenn to bring people to orbit. After that, it was a project called "New Armstrong" , but nothing was known about this project. However, from the name, we guess this could be a project related to the Moon.

Finally, we are waiting to see if there are actually at least two companies that will launch a space travel service in 2019.

The video of the flight test of Blue Origin.