Blue Origin launch today: Six people to join supersonic, suborbital space tourism flight

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is slated to launch its fourth space tourism mission today as the company continues its mission to make high-speed flights to the edge of space a mainstay of pop culture

The six passengers, which include a Blue Origin engineer and five paying customers, are slated to take off aboard their Blue Origin New Shepard capsule Thursday after 9:30 am ET.Here's who's flying on Thursday's Blue Origin space launchThose interested in catching the action — which is expected to look much like Blue Origin's three earlier suborbital jaunts — can tune into Blue Origin's webcast Thursday morning.

From building cheaper rockets and designing new uses for satellites to imagining futuristic space hotels, the industry has attracted record levels of investment.After years of quiet development, Blue Origin's space tourism rocket made its crewed launch debut last year with Bezos, flying alongside a heroine of the space community, Wally Funk, as well as his brother Mark Bezos and a paying customer.

 

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Boooooo booooooo that’s our money you’re burning.

❗️Introduce a complete embargo on gas and oil!

❗️Introduce a complete embargo on gas and oil!

F--k JeffBezos

Because flushing that much money on a joyride rather than investing in deserving humans her on base is much more satisfying?

What's the carbon footprint of this little space trip?

'a mission to make high-speed flights to the edge of space a mainstay of pop culture' what tho if we stopped trying to satisfy every dopamine receptor in the human brain with pop culture experiences that will collapse the planet

His vast number of employees here on Earth could be enjoying a good quality of life instead.

Gross.

Doing the opposite of what we should be doing to slow down climate change.

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