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SPACE ORBIT: Company set to launch intergalactic flights
Jeff Bezos’ company, Blue Origin has announced that it will launch its new Sheppard rocket and capsule in July – and it will have a crew on board.
The Sheppard’s flights are “sub-orbital” meaning they will take passengers on a short trip into space and back down to earth.
The company says “only 569 people have ever been over the so-called Kármán Line in space… and it wants to change this and change it dramatically”
It comes as Elon Musk’s SpaceX also plans to launch people into space by Autumn this year.