With Blue Origin passengers set, suborbital tourism arrives after decades of work

Source: NASA Spaceflight
Date Published: 07/15/2021

After years of development, suborbital space tourism looks ready to lift off after Virgin Galactic successfully launched its first fully-crewed suborbital mission to space on July 11 following several prior crewed suborbital tests. The Unity 22 mission came just days before Blue Origin is scheduled to make its first passenger suborbital mission no earlier than Tuesday, July 20 using its New Shepard system.