{"id":17564,"date":"2021-04-29T23:40:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jeff-bezos-and-blue-origin-promise-details-coming-next-week-for-how-to-buy-first-seat-on-spaceflight\/"},"modified":"2021-04-29T23:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:40:03","slug":"jeff-bezos-and-blue-origin-promise-details-coming-next-week-for-how-to-buy-first-seat-on-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jeff-bezos-and-blue-origin-promise-details-coming-next-week-for-how-to-buy-first-seat-on-spaceflight\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin promise details coming next week for how to buy first seat on spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_617483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-617483\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-617483\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/boriginscreen-630x354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/boriginscreen-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/boriginscreen-1260x708.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/boriginscreen-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/boriginscreen.jpg 1406w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-617483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A new message on the homepage of Blue Origin\u2019s website. (BlueOrigin.com screenshot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Step aside, Mannequin Skywalker. Blue Origin is getting ready for real humans to man its New Shepard spaceship and replace the high-tech dummy that has flown on previous test flights.<\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram post on Thursday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos again said, \u201cIt\u2019s time,\u201d and pointed people to the Blue Origin website where a countdown clock is running to May 5. The site encourages people to sign up \u201cto learn how you can buy the very first seat on New Shepard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bezos\u2019 post includes highlights from New Shepard\u2019s first uncrewed test flight back in January, in which Blue Origin\u2019s reusable booster rocket and its crew capsule performed a successful mission in West Texas. Bezos is seen zipping across the desert in his pickup truck emblazoned with his space venture\u2019s feather logo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" id=\"instagram-embed-0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COQHlEaHzAW\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=987&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekwire.com&amp;rp=%2F2021%2Fjeff-bezos-blue-origin-promise-details-coming-next-week-buy-first-seat-spaceflight%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A1606.4999997615814%7D\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"684\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background: white; max-width: 658px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 12px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Humans factored more heavily into an April 14 test flight, performing all the steps leading up to launch and following landing of the 10-minute, 10-second flight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is as real as it can get without \u2026 sending them on a trip to space,\u201d launch commentator Ariane Cornell said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin employees are expected to go on the first crewed flights, but eventually the company will take on passengers paying a&nbsp;six-figure ticket price. Cornell said spacefliers will arrive at Blue Origin\u2019s \u201castronaut village\u201d three days before their trip, and go through training sessions and simulations before they fly.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin builds the hardware for the suborbital New Shepard program at its headquarters in Kent, Wash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new message on the homepage of Blue Origin\u2019s website. (BlueOrigin.com screenshot) Step aside, Mannequin Skywalker. Blue Origin is getting ready for real humans to man its New Shepard spaceship and replace the high-tech dummy that has flown on previous test flights. In an Instagram post on Thursday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos again said, \u201cIt\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[509,291,1046,1250,4731,493],"class_list":["post-17564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blue-origin","tag-commercial-space","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-new-shepard","tag-space-flight","tag-space-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}