Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon and the world's richest man, is set to bring his private space firm out of the dark at an event on Thursday.
But unlike those of SpaceX, to date Blue Origin's launches have all been sub-orbital, poking into the very edges of the Earth's atmosphere, but have not gone high enough to enter into orbit or to completely escape the pull of the planet's gravity.Mr Bezos is scheduled to speak at an event in Washington DC on Thursday to announce the company's progress in a very rare media briefing.
While private sector competitors - including from fellow billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX - have been the driving force in orbital launches in recent years, Blue Origin is targeting the space tourist market. Historically space exploration, especially orbital launches which involve the spacecraft going high enough to complete an orbit of the Earth, has been so expensive and offered such uncertain returns on investment that it could only be funded by states.To potentially approach this market, an orbital launch vehicle called New Glenn has been announced by Blue Origin.
He looks like adonis is there aliens here already
Mr Bezos van you please make one big enough to seat the house of commons and launch those space cadets into orbit. Thank you From the entire UK
pay some proper taxes you cue ball headed tosser