Blue Origin plans to launch its New Shepard rocket on another sub-orbital flight from West Texas Wednesday and as the company inches closer to adding humans on board some employees will conduct astronaut operations as if they were launching.
The company — founded by billionaire, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — is targeting 11:56 a.m. ET to launch New Shepard from its launch site in Van Horn, Texas.
The flight will mark the 15th sub-orbital launch for New Shepard. [TRENDING: Hilarious: Women try to get baby gator out of house | Disney changes ‘look’ for cast members | Meteor lights up Fla.
sky] Blue Origin plans to eventually launch paying customers in the capsule. For Wednesday’s flight, employees will stand in for those commercial astronauts