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Jeff Bezos' Company Will Begin Selling Spaceflight Tickets In 2019

The New Shepard reusable launch system would take up to six passengers about 60 miles above Earth's surface.
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Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin announced it will sell tickets for suborbital spaceflights starting in 2019.

The company released this video advertising the trips. The New Shepard reusable launch system would take up to six passengers about 60 miles above Earth's surface to the edge of the planet's atmosphere. They would get to experience weightlessness before descending back to the surface.

But just because tickets go on sale next year doesn't mean that's when flights will take place. Blue Origin has yet to even test the New Shepard system with people aboard.