Blue Origin to Send Humans to Space in First Mission in Two Years

A couple of years ago the world was engulfed in a space race the likes of which it had never seen before. For the first time in history, three private companies were competing to send civilians with no long-term astronaut training into space. Since that time, the pace seems to have slowed down a bit. The three companies are SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and Blue Origin. Elon Musk's company sent a single civilian crew to space to date, and... (continue reading...)