Jeff Bezos is planning for commercial sub-orbital human spaceflight through a spaceflight company called Blue Origin.
 Plans for New Shepard were initially kept quiet, but Blue Origin's website indicated Bezos' desire to "lower the cost of spaceflight so that we humans can better continue exploring the Solar System
 In December 2017, Blue Origin launched a test experiment on New Shepard with a technology that could one day treat chest trauma in a space environment

