Blue Origin has thousands of people waiting for their ticket to the galaxy

Saturday, February 19, 2022

On Thursday, Bob Smith, Blue Origin CEO, explained that the company is in need to build more of its New Shepard rockets for the rising demand in space tourism. In 2021, Blue Origin launched three crewed missions and Smith has explained that the company can “easily double that” number of missions in 2022.

Three months back, Blue Origin’s last spaceflight was seen. There’s many people out there all prepared to cough up millions of dollars for a seat on its next journey.

To quote the CEO, “thousands of people in the auction process” for a ticket to the edge of space, CNBC reports.

As far as the ticket price is concerned, Blue Origin hasn’t revealed any for its spaceflights; however the winning bid for a seat on the first crewed mission of the company came in at $28 million in 2021.

Also, Smith said at the conference that Blue Origin is seeing “very robust demand” for more of its spaceflights and will build additional New Shepard rockets to meet it, according to CNBC. Smith added that the company can “easily double” the number of crewed missions this year from what it had in 2021.

Last year, Blue Origin had three crewed spaceflights.

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