Quiet and secretive Blue Origin hopes to start new chapter with Jeff Bezos’s space flight

“He, more than anybody else, has been through all the technical details of the system and has been there through all the major decision points, including the testing program and all the data coming out of it,” said Ariane Cornell, the company’s director of astronaut and orbital sales. “So I’m not surprised at all that he said, ‘Hey, let’s go.’ I mean, it’s really been his dream, like a lot of us, to fly to space since he was a little kid.”