Amazon CEO's space travel company, Blue Origin, launching humans in 2017

Mar 10, 2016, 05:10

Bezos told the press at the facility tour that he isn't anxious about Blue Origin having competition from other private space companies: there will be a lot of resources needed and a lot of room for different companies to grow as more and more work is done beyond Earth, he said.

Founder Jeff Bezos said if testing for its New Shepard rocket goes well, recreational spaceflight could be here in a few short years.

For now, the man who founded Amazon.com is spending some of the billions earned from the Seattle-based online retailer on high tech equipment and about 600 employees working in a former Boeing airplane parts facility. The private space company opened its doors to the media for the first time on Tuesday.

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Blue Origin, which was founded in 2000, has not taken deposits from interested space travelers yet, but Bezos has been quoted as saying that he believes the company will eventually be profitable. Blue Origin repeated the launch-and-return journey in January. Thus it is still unclear whether the interest in space travel will turn into actual sales. He enthusiastically shared technical details and explanations during a media tour and one engineer said he was as knowledgeable about the technology as anyone in the building. "I'm optimistic it will be a healthy business", Bezos said. Bezos made his forward-looking remarks during a talk at Blue Origin earlier this week, The Guardian said. There is a Russian space suit on display and a proposed space station that was never built.

Now, Bezos said he's nearly ready to start sitting people on top of those rockets.

The move indicates Bezos' ambition to catch up with rival companies Space X and Virgin Galactic, which also hope to send paying customers to space in the near future.

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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly recently expressed his excitement about the possibility of private companies offering regular people an easy way to visit space. The real goal is to flawless their equipment by flying as many as 100 suborbital flights a year.

Blue Origin's lobby features a replica of the Earth.

"What I know you can not afford is throwing the hardware away", he said. This was the first time its founder Jeff Bezos put a target date on its commercial flights.

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