Blue Origiin Blueprint

Jeff Bezos' NewSpace company, Blue Origin, is known for its secrecy, but we do have its basic plan for the way forward.

BO sees the key to lowering the cost to space in developing a reusable launch system.  It is working on a system that will both launch and land vertically.  Beyond that, it is developing a suborbital vehicle, the New Shepard, that the company sees as carrying both tourists and scientists to the edge of space,  BO is also working on a vehicle capable of ferrying seven astronauts to and from low Earth orbit.

Though the New Shepard has yet to fly, the company sees the orbital craft in operation by 2016 or 2018.