KENT, Wash.—Private space travel company Blue Origin expects its first test flights with people in 2017, company founder Jeff Bezos said during a tour of the venture’s research and development site outside Seattle.
And Bezos said Tuesday that thousands of people have expressed interest in eventually paying for a trip on a suborbital craft.
“We‘ll probably fly test pilots in 2017, and if we’re successful then I’d imagine putting paying astronauts on in 2018,” Bezos said, according to Reuters.
