Seats on Blue Origin spaceships to start selling in 2019

An executive for Blue Origin says the aerospace company will begin selling tickets for suborbital space flights in 2019. Senior Vice President Rob Meyerson delivered the news during a keynote speech at Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C. The flights will be aboard New Shepard, a rocket Blue Origin first started testing in 2015. Those tests will soon include passengers, according to Meyerson.