{"id":91684,"date":"2019-06-06T05:23:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T12:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/jeff-bezos-space-firm-debuts-video-of-cushy-space-tourist-capsule"},"modified":"2019-06-06T05:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T12:23:42","slug":"jeff-bezos-space-firm-debuts-video-of-cushy-space-tourist-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/jeff-bezos-space-firm-debuts-video-of-cushy-space-tourist-capsule","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos\u2019 Space Firm Debuts Video of Cushy Space Tourist Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jeff-bezos-space-firm-debuts-video-of-cushy-space-tourist-capsule.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those padded walls will help in low gravity, no doubt, and in the crew capsule, all six people get a window seat. \u201cYou\u2019ll listen to the countdown and then feel the engine ignite and rumble under you as you climb through the atmosphere,\u201d reads a description from Blue Origin. The capsule is 530 cubic feet.<\/p>\n<p>The first crewed Blue Origin flight will simply reach the edge of space \u2014 a landmark called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/36911-space-tourism-2020\">the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Line<\/a> \u2014 and then return. This the company\u2019s reusable suborbital flight system, will launch the crew capsule to its destination before it descends to Earth, landing softly in the Texas dirt, thanks to parachutes. Blue Origin is also working on a heavy-lift launch vehicle designed to reach Earth orbit, called New Glenn, but that\u2019s unlikely to fly before 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The video \u2014 seen above \u2014 was shot by an Amazon representative and sent to <em>Inverse<\/em>. There\u2019s no denying, it looks remarkably comfortable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/56460-blue-origin-s-crew-capsule-first-look-inside\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those padded walls will help in low gravity, no doubt, and in the crew capsule, all six people get a window seat. \u201cYou\u2019ll listen to the countdown and then feel the engine ignite and rumble under you as you climb through the atmosphere,\u201d reads a description from Blue Origin. The capsule is 530 cubic feet. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91684","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=91684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}