2018, Amazon Boss Open Space Travel
CEO Amazon Jeff Bezos ( REUTERS/Mike Segar)
ScienceLovers -- Besides sounding titles as CEO he founded Amazon, Jeff Bezos also has assemblers spacecraft Blue Origin. I was so aggressive, Bezos targeting commercial trips into space implemented two years.
Bezos' Blue Origin is targeting in order to begin test flights using the best New Shepard reusable 2017, in order to realize his dream to fly passengers into space in 2018.
"The possibility of flight trials will be held in 2017, if successful then I want the astronauts can fly commercially in 2018," he said, as preached by Reuters news agency.
"Commercial Astronaut" is meant Bezos is the crew of the passenger who did want to experience a trip into space.
The company plans to develop six New Shepard aircraft designed to fly autonomously and can accommodate six passengers.
New Shepard will fly about 100 kilometers above the Earth's orbit. The distance is considered high enough to get a feel for a moment how the zero-gravity environment and looking at the Earth from behind dark space.
Blue Origin has not put a price on the cost of space travel, which obviously Bezos said that would be competitive against other similar companies, such as Virgin Galactic belonging to billionaire Richard Branson.
Bezos' Blue Origin hope can be profitable in the industry. "I am optimistic that this will be a healthy business," he said.
Bezos has invested more than US $ 500 million to Blue Origin. The company will add a workforce of 1,200 employees in 2017.
Later, a number of companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin itself is being competing to develop a spacecraft that can return to Earth cultivated alias reusable, in order to reduce the cost of space flight.
Reusable rocket is known or which can be used again belonged to Blue Origin previously lost during the test flight in April 2015 and, although the capsule floated safely back to Earth.
