Blue Origin planning test flights to space by 2017
KENT, Wash. – Private space travel company Blue Origin expects to launch its first people in 2017, company founder Jeff Bezos said Tuesday during a tour of the venture’s research and development site outside Seattle. Those won’t be paying customers, he said, but thousands have expressed interest in paying for a trip on a suborbital craft. Blue Origin, founded in 2000, has launched a ship twice, and it landed safely.