Blue Origin Says It Will Build An Orbiting Mixed-Use Business Park In Space

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First came the tourists. Next comes the business. Blue Origin says it will create a new privately owned space station in orbit around the Earth — what it calls a “mixed-use business park” in space.

The company announced the plan months after completing its first human space flight on the New Shepard launch vehicle, an endeavor that included taking a paying customer into space.

The new commercial space station will be called Orbital Reef, and Blue Origin — which is owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — says that by the end of the 2020s, it will become “the premier mixed-use space station in low Earth orbit for commerce, research, and tourism.”

“The station will open the next chapter of human space exploration and development by facilitating the growth of a vibrant ecosystem and business model for the future,” Blue Origin said Monday as it unveiled the plan.

Read more at NPR.

{Matzav.com}

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