Private aerospace company Blue Origin plan on shooting tourists into space, and they’ve got pictures of the vessel to prove it.
The New Shepherd is a reusable vehicle that will take tourists to the edge of space where they’ll get to see proof of a round earth and also float around like a bunch of weirdos.
Unlike SpaceX‘s Crew Dragon craft that plans to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station (as well as send two very wealthy passengers around the moon), the New Shepherd is purpose-built for tourism.
“Every seat’s a window seat, the largest windows ever in space,” said CEO Jeff Bezos.
While they’ve successfully launched and landed the rocket five times already, they’ve yet to do it with people onboard. Jeff, if you’re reading this, I will happily take the first flight if it means I get to go to space for free. Shit yeahhh.
The ship hasn’t been physically built yet, but the company plan on mocking one up for media early next month.
Check out some more sick pics of the New Shepherd below.
Source: The Verge.
Photo: Blue Origin.
