Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith on Thursday said the company needs to build more of its New Shepard rockets to meet the demand from the space tourism market.
Blue Origin launched three crewed missions last year and Smith says the company can"easily double that" number of missions in 2022.space company Blue Origin flew 14 people to space in 2021, and CEO Bob Smith on Thursday said the firm needs to build more of its New Shepard rockets to meet the demand from the space tourism market.
"I think the challenge for Blue at this point is that we're actually supply limited," Smith said, speaking at the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington.with its New Shepard rocket and capsule last year, as well as one cargo research flight. Smith says the company can"easily double that" number of missions in 2022.
New Shepard launches from Blue Origin's private facility in the Texas desert and reaches above 100 kilometers , past the 80-kilometer boundary the U.S. uses to mark the edge of space. Blue Origin currently has two operational New Shepard rocket boosters, one for research cargo flights and the other for passenger flights.
The company has not publicly disclosed pricing for seats on its New Shepard rocket. The only indication of Blue Origin's pricing structure comes from an auction for a seat on its first flight, which went for $28 million. Bezos has previously said the company has sold nearly $100 million worth of tickets, and Smith on Thursday said there were"thousands of people in the auction process.
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