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US approves Blue Origin for Human Space Travel
July 16 , 2021
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- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved “Blue Origin license” in order to carry humans on New Shepard launch system into space.
- Former Amazon Chief Executive, Jeff Bezos, is to fly to space on July 20 through Blue Origin’s maiden crewed voyage.
- Blue Origin is authorized to carry humans while FAA license is valid through August.
- Blue Origin is approved to conduct these missions from its Launch Site One facility in Texas.
- This flight is coming after space-tourism rival Virgin Galactic successfully sent its crew to the edge of space.
- Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, SpaceX firm are working to usher in new era of routine commercial civilian space travel.
- Space travel has been popularized as “billionaire space race.”
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