Amazon chief executive office and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos recently announced that its space travel company is expected to launched its first human test space flights in 2017. Bezos made the announcement on March 8 during a tour of Blue Origin's research development site just outside of Seattle.
Following his bold announcement, Bezos added that thousands of interested people have already expressed their interests into booking a trip into space should the test flights proved to be successful, according to The Verge.
Recently, Bezos have been busy funneling some of the billions earned by Amazon to fund some of its more futuristic visions. Blue Origin has received billions of funds to acquire high tech equipment. The company also has about more than 600 employees working on space related projects.
Blue Origin currently operates in a former facility owned by Boeing and Bezos have iterated on several occasions that he believes that the company will eventually be profitable.
Blue Origin was found in 2000 and since then it has successfully launched two crafts, both of them landed safely. The company is revolutionizing space travel as it envisions creating reusable crafts in order to save money from building them just for a single use.
Blue Origin plans to continue testing its prototypes until it has fully exhausted their reusability and then switch to newer crafts that are being built in order to test human flight.
While taking private individuals to space might not sound like a very lucrative business, market analysts said that he real money will come from selling reusable rocket engines to other companies that have plans to launch satellites and space ships into space. One such company is United Launch Alliance which asked Blue Origin to build the engine for its new launch crafts since the company is looking for alternatives for its Russian-made engines.
Despite being deeply committed to the visions of Blue Origin, Bezos still holds a daily job at Amazon. In a statement acquired by ABC News, Bezos shared his dream of space travel back when he was five saying, "I only pursue things that I am passionate about."