into space in 2019 on new shepard a suborbital vehicle designed for space tourism which uses liquid hydrogen were going to be flying humans in new shepherd this year bezos said in may in this image provided by nasa astronaut buzz aldrin poses for a photograph beside the us flag deployed on the moon during the apollo 11 mission on july 20 1969 neil a armstrongnasa via ap file bezos openly talks about his admiration for gerard k oneill a space activist who was a big booster for space colonies in the short term what hes trying to do in his lifetime is to make space more affordable more accessible to fly much more frequently davenport said richard wants to do the same thing at virgin galactic and elon wants to do the same thing at spacex and thats the connective tissue that binds all of them together they want more people going to space they want more vehicles going to space with more regularity in a good year you might fly rockets a couple times a month as opposed to multiple times a week and thats what theyre aiming for davenport said as space trips become more frequent and commonplace you get better your operations become more efficient your costs go down and thats what theyre ultimately trying to do more blue origin jeff bezos unveils plans for space colonization musks goal in founding spacex was to go to mars and borne out of the frustration that nasa hadnt been there at the time elon was founding spacex he wanted to speed that up davenport said spacex has been successfully launching reusable rockets for years and taking cargo to the international space station still the apollo 11 anniversary has highlighted the lofty goals of all potential players pushing into space travel this year and going into next year will be the most exciting time in the space industry since the apollo era stallmer said theyre really close to getting the general public and private astronauts virgin galactic reaches space for the first time during its 4th powered flight from mojave calif dec 13 2018 matt hartmanap file but that horizon may be further out than the industry wants since 2011 american astronauts travel to the international space station iss on russian rockets at a cost of about 87 million per seat in effect funding the russian space program said csfs stallmer boeing and spacex are currently in a race to start flying nasa astronauts to the iss by years end a goal both companies will mostly likely have to delay both have suffered setbacks in april a spacex crew dragon capsule exploded boeings starliner experienced an engine failure in june 2018 causing delays for the aerospace giant more musk optimistic about 2019 test flights to mars but a good chance you will die i dont think its impossible but its getting increasingly difficult for a spacex flight with astronauts this year spacex vice president hans koenigsmann told