Blue Origin is a privately-funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. Initially focused on sub-orbital spaceflight, the company has built and flown a testbed of its New Shepard spacecraft design at their Culberson County, Texas facility. According to company statements, it plans on placing the New Shepard in commercial suborbital tourist service in 2010 with flights about once a week.[1] It is now confirmed that under the current timetable, Blue Origin will fly unmanned in 2011, and manned in 2012.[2]
