Event Description

Launch of 5th New Shepard

  • Date: 06/04/2022
  • Location: Van Horn, Texas, USA
  • Photo Credit: Blue Origin Webcast

First Paid Tourism into Space

I can’t hide the excitement of hearing the news today! Space tourism is one of my dreams I have had growing up. Thank you Blue Origin for its launch of the sixth New Shepard today, carrying 6 tourists who all paid for the spacecraft seats into space, marking a milestone that going into space is not a privilege for agencies and billionaires.

One thing I like about the commercial Space Race is that the private companies think about the customer’s perspective. They expanded space discoveries in their business to maximize profits. While thinking of the profits, the customers are convenient with their services. I hope that this would be a core competitive aspect such that we might eventually be able to travel to space.