{"id":35704,"date":"2017-03-29T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/blue-origin-releases-first-interior-photos-of-the-capsule-that-will-take-tourists-to-space"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:07:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:07:11","slug":"blue-origin-releases-first-interior-photos-of-the-capsule-that-will-take-tourists-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/blue-origin-releases-first-interior-photos-of-the-capsule-that-will-take-tourists-to-space","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin releases first interior photos of the capsule that will take tourists to space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-origin-releases-first-interior-photos-of-the-capsule-that-will-take-tourists-to-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Private spaceflight company Blue Origin has released the first interior photos for the New Shepard, offering a glimpse at what the finished crew capsule will look like.<\/p>\n<p>New Shepard is a reusable vehicle aimed at taking tourists to the edge of space, where they can float around weightless for a few minutes. The rocket has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/10\/5\/13173962\/blue-origin-new-shepard-rocket-launch-escape-system-test\">successfully launched and landed five times<\/a> already, but no people have ridden in the capsule yet. Blue Origin is planning to take its first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/3\/9\/11184466\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-tourists-space-2018\">paying customers to space by 2018<\/a>, according to CEO Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n<p>The photos of New Shepard look quite different from the interior of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/9\/10\/9308047\/spacex-crew-dragon-nasa-interior-photos\">SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon capsule<\/a>. But while the New Shepard focuses on tourism, the main purpose for Crew Dragon is to send astronauts to the International Space Station. (Though CEO Elon Musk recently announced that he plans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/2\/27\/14754404\/spacex-moon-mission-2018-elon-musk-announces-private-citizen-passengers\">send two tourists around the moon<\/a> in the spaceship in 2018.) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/3\/29\/15105684\/blue-origin-new-shepherd-crew-interior-photos-tourist-space\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/3\/29\/15105684\/blue-origin-new-s...rist-space<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private spaceflight company Blue Origin has released the first interior photos for the New Shepard, offering a glimpse at what the finished crew capsule will look like. New Shepard is a reusable vehicle aimed at taking tourists to the edge of space, where they can float around weightless for a few minutes. The rocket has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58263,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35704\/revisions\/58263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}