You can read about the mission in the wrap story.
You can watch the live launch of Blue Origin on Thursday.
A New Shepard suborbital vehicle is scheduled to lift off from Blue Origin's West Texas site. The company's sixth human spaceflight is scheduled to take place on the 13th. Blue Origin gives you the option of watching live here at Space.com or via the company's website. 30 minutes before launch, coverage will start.
The mission will carry six people, including Coby Cotton, one of the founding members of the popular YouTube channel.
Jeff Bezos was the first New Shepard passenger.
The first two people from Portugal and Egypt to reach the final frontier are also onboard. There is more information about the passengers in the story.
New Shepard is a combination of a rocket and capsule that can be used to take people and research to suborbital space. The crew capsule lands softly under the parachutes after the rocket comes back to earth.
The New Shepard missions take about 11 minutes to complete. Passengers are able to see the curve of Earth against the blackness of space.
Blue Origin doesn't know how much it costs for this experience. Virgin Galactic, the company's main competitor in the suborbital space tourism field, sells seats on its spaceship for $450,000.
Four times the piloted VSS Unity has reached suborbital space, but is still not fully operational. The third passenger flight of the year will be New Shepard.
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