Blue Origin Filling Mission Control Posts to Perhaps Start Launching Passengers Into Space by the End of this Year.

Blue Origin's job listings hint that it could soon be signing up astronauts

Some of the nearly 200 job opportunities posted by Blue Origin suggest Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos' space venture is preparing to sign up passengers for its New Shepard suborbital spaceflights. One listing is looking for an astronaut experience manager to help create "a highly differentiated offering that culminates in the customer becoming an astronaut."

 From article, (Some of the nearly 200 job opportunities posted by Blue Origin suggest Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture is preparing to sign up passengers for its New Shepard suborbital spaceflights.

One listing is looking for an astronaut experience manager to help create “a highly differentiated offering that culminates in the customer becoming an astronaut.”

Another listing calls for someone to run a training program for New Shepard flight controllers.

“Over the next year, New Shepard Launch Operations will transition from a development and test operation to a sustaining commercial operation, and you will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of reusable launch operations,” the listing says.

New Shepard spaceships already have gone through a series of uncrewed tests to the edge of space and back. Depending on how the program proceeds, the first crewed flight tests could take place before the end of this year, and paying customers could start flying next year.

New Shepard is designed to fly up to six passengers to heights above 100 kilometers (62 miles), the internationally accepted boundary of space. There’ll be no pilot on board. Instead, the flight will proceed autonomously under the supervision of a mission control team.

Blue Origin says it has openings for New Shepard vehicle operators who can be certified to serve as capsule controllers, booster controllers, ground controllers or flight directors at the West Texas launch site.

The price of a flight hasn’t yet been set, and although Blue Origin lets people register their interest in signing up for a space trip, the company says it’ll be up to the astronaut experience manager to “create and manage the astronaut manifest.”)

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