{"id":19692,"date":"2013-10-11T20:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bezos-blue-origin-space-venture-now-employs-300-people-gearing-up-for-commercial-operations\/"},"modified":"2013-10-11T20:30:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T12:30:58","slug":"bezos-blue-origin-space-venture-now-employs-300-people-gearing-up-for-commercial-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bezos-blue-origin-space-venture-now-employs-300-people-gearing-up-for-commercial-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture now employs 300 people, gearing up for commercial operations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos talks about his space venture Blue Origin at the grand opening of the Bezos Center of Innovation at The Museum of History & Industry in Seattle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Blue Origin, the Seattle-based space venture backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has been quietly working for the past 13 years on development and testing of its New Shepard rocket.<\/p>\n

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Image credit: Blue Origin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Friday, Bezos said that the company is now up to 300 employees and is inching closer to commercial operation. The 49-year-old Amazon founder was speaking at the grand opening of the Bezos Center of Innovation at The Museum of History & Industry in Seattle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe project is going extremely well,\u201d Bezos said of Blue Origin. \u201cIt\u2019s a killer team of passionate, highly-technical people working on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blue Origin is now working on its third version of the New Shepard, which is designed to take everyday people on suborbital journeys. Bezos said that he\u2019s hopeful that this will be the last iteration, and he wants to see the next vehicle ready for commercial operation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very optimistic about that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bezos didn\u2019t give any specific timetables. However, he did say that Blue Origin\u2019s orbital vehicle, designed to send astronauts to the International Space Station and elsewhere, will be tested by 2018.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the goal is to let anyone fly up into space safely at reasonable prices.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the mission,\u201d Bezos said.<\/p>\n

Blue Origin, which has yet to send anything up into space, is currently embroiled in a battle with Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX over a vacant NASA shuttle launch pad. Musk recently said that \u201cunicorns will dance\u201d before Bezos makes it to space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos talks about his space venture Blue Origin at the grand opening of the Bezos Center of Innovation at The Museum of History & Industry in Seattle. Blue Origin, the Seattle-based space venture backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, has been quietly working for the past 13 years on development and testing of […]<\/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":[509,1046,21,4731],"class_list":["post-19692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blue-origin","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-space","tag-space-flight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692"}],"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=19692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}