{"id":88124,"date":"2019-02-23T18:02:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T02:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/jeff-bezos-new-shepard-will-launch-first-people-into-space-this-year"},"modified":"2019-02-23T18:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T02:02:53","slug":"jeff-bezos-new-shepard-will-launch-first-people-into-space-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/jeff-bezos-new-shepard-will-launch-first-people-into-space-this-year","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos: New Shepard Will Launch First People Into Space \u201cThis Year\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jeff-bezos-new-shepard-will-launch-first-people-into-space-this-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wants to send its first passengers to space as soon as this year. Bezos spoke during a private event at the Yale Club in New York City, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-wings-club-presentation-transcript-2019-2\"><em>Business Insider<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year. This is the first time I\u2019ve ever been saying, \u201dthis year.\u201d For a few years, I\u2019ve been saying, \u201dnext year,\u201d Bezos told Jeff Foust, senior staff writer at <em>Space News<\/em>, during the event.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire\u2019s private space tourism company Blue Origins has been making some big strides towards that goal in recent years. Its flagship suborbital vehicle New Shepard reached the so-called K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line (62 miles or 100 km), widely agreed to be the edge of outer space, for the first time during a test flight in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/jeff-bezos-new-shepard-launch-this-year\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/jeff-bezos-new-shepard-launch-this-year\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wants to send its first passengers to space as soon as this year. Bezos spoke during a private event at the Yale Club in New York City, Business Insider reports. \u201cThis year. This is the first time I\u2019ve ever been saying, \u201dthis year.\u201d For a few years, I\u2019ve been saying, \u201dnext [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88124","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}