Blue Origin Sets Date to Fly Space Tourists After Two-Year Halt

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin LLC is slated to resume space tourist flights on May 19 after it halted crewed operations following a 2022 midflight mishap, the company said on Tuesday.

Blue Origin returned its small New Shepard booster to space late last year without a crew, confirming a Bloomberg News report on the timing of the mission. The company, seen as a future key strategic rival to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is also building a massive orbital class rocket and aims to send humans to the moon later this decade.