{"id":19230,"date":"2016-09-27T17:05:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T09:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-space-venture-sets-its-sights-on-trips-to-mars-and-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T17:05:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T09:05:43","slug":"jeff-bezos-blue-origin-space-venture-sets-its-sights-on-trips-to-mars-and-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-space-venture-sets-its-sights-on-trips-to-mars-and-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture sets its sights on trips to Mars and the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amazon\u2019s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, inspects Blue Origin\u2019s launch facility in West Texas before a test flight in April. (Credit: Blue Origin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

GUADALAJARA, Mexico \u2013 SpaceX isn\u2019t the only billionaire-backed company that\u2019s planning to go to Mars: Blue Origin, the space venture created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is also taking aim at Mars, the moon and other deep-space destinations.<\/p>\n

Those missions are implied in Bezos\u2019 long-term vision of having millions of people living and working in space, Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson said today at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara.<\/p>\n

One small step toward that goal is due to come next week, when Blue Origin puts its suborbital New Shepard spaceship through its most challenging flight test yet at the company\u2019s launch site in West Texas.<\/p>\n

The Mars angle came up when an audience member asked Meyerson about a much larger rocket, the New Armstrong, which is only now on the drawing boards at Blue Origin\u2019s headquarters south of Seattle.<\/p>\n

New Shepard is named after the late astronaut Alan Shepard, who took NASA\u2019s first suborbital space trip in 1961. New Armstrong takes its name from the late Neil Armstrong, who took humanity\u2019s first walk on the moon\u2019s surface eight years later.<\/p>\n

When the questioner asked about the significance of the name, and whether Blue Origin had any plans to go to Mars, Meyerson answered in the context of Bezos\u2019 vision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we have millions of people living and working in space, we want them to be able to go to lots of destinations,\u201d he said. \u201cMars would be one of them. The moon would be another. New Armstrong is really designed for that long-term vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meyerson added that \u201cthis is a vision that will take decades to achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n