Tickets to go to space for fun to go on sale in 2019

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will start selling passenger tickets for trips into space as early as next year, according to Blue Origin, the space-tourism startup owned by the billionaire.

The company expects its New Shepard suborbital vehicle to carry the first space tourists to orbit in 2019, according to Blue Origin Senior Vice President Rob Meyerson. The top manager hasn’t provided any details on ticket prices.:

Blue Origin senior vice president Rob Meyerson, as quoted by Space News

We plan to start flying our first test passengers soon. We expect to start selling tickets in 2019.

The expedition is not quite like Elon Musk’s SpaceX which is currently capable of taking astronauts and cargos to the International Space Station (ISS), while Blue Origin’s New Shepard is still more like a rocket-powered observation deck. That is about 60km from the surface of the earth.

How much will it cost? Not sure but rivals have had theirs at $250,000 so it is not any spring chicken who can just, well, you know, do the damn thing.

Still neat.

Space tourism is thing now and a few

Would you go to space for fun or you’re still to busy with holidays on earth.