A trip to the edge of space? WSJ columnist Dan Neil is in, if the price is right
What moved me most about Blue Origin’s factory in Kent, Wash., where the New Shepard tourist rocket is built, was the nearness of it all—the realization that, if I don’t fall off a ladder in the next year or so, I will have a chance to soar to the edge of space, 62 miles in altitude, the so-called Karman Line.
Plenty of chances, actually. As Blue Origin execs describe it, New Shepard’s West Texas launch site will operate rather like a skydiving outfit: Clients will show up, suit up, receive some brief training, and blast...
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