When Blue Origin launches people into space for the first time, founder Jeff Bezos will be on board.
No test pilots or flight engineers for Tuesday's debut flight from West Texas, just Bezos, his brother, an 82-year-old aviation pioneer and a teenage tourist.
The capsule is entirely automated, unlike Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic rocket plane that required two pilots to get him to space and back a week ago. Branson's advice? "Just sit back, relax, look out of the window, just absorb the view outside," he said on CBS' "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
Differences in quirks and rockets aside, the billionaire rivals are gearing up to launch just about anybody willing to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars for a brief up-and-down space hop.Bezos created Blue Origin in 2000, a move that he said prompted his high school girlfriend to observe, "Jeff started Amazon just to get enough money to do Blue Origin -- and I can't prove her wrong." He has said he finances the rocket company by selling US$1 billion in Amazon stock a year.
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