What Is the Cost of a Blue Origin Flight to Space? – ryan

Blue Origin’s space flights are literally out of this world — and so is the potential ticket price.

On April 14, Blue Origin’s first all-female flight crew blasted off into space from West Texas for a trip that lasted about eight minutes.

The six-person crew included Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez, as well as NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, film producer Kerianne Flynn and bioastronautics research scientist and activist Amanda Nguyen.

“I will never be the same,” Bowe said after returning to Earth, per NBC. King echoed the same life-changing sentiment: “I stepped out of my comfort zone in a way that I never thought was possible for me.”

“And now that I’ve done it, I really do feel like I can take on anything,” she added.

Blue Origin NS-31 was filled with celebrities and scientists, but can anyone book a seat on a flight to space? Here’s what to know about how to reserve a spot on a Blue Origin flight and how much a trip to space will cost you.

How much is a Blue Origin space flight?

The exact cost of a Blue Origin ticket is still a bit of a mystery. In the summer of 2021, Blue Origin auctioned off a seat on its first crewed flight for $28 million, according to The New York Times. The individual who purchased that seat had to postpone the flight due to scheduling conflicts; it was then given to Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen, then 18, whose father came in second place in the auction.

But not everyone has to pay millions of dollars. In October 2021, Star Trek star William Shatner flew on the New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle for free as a “guest” of Blue Origin, the company told The New York Times.

“It’s not about money; it’s about who you are, your social capital, whether you align with their launch purposes. It’s kind of a package deal,” Roman Chiporukha, co-founder of space travel booking company SpaceVIP, told The Observer.

Blue Origin spokesperson Bill Kircos told CNN that “some passengers” on the April 14 flight flew “free of charge,” while others did not. The company declined to say who paid for their trip.

While Blue Origin hasn’t disclosed how much a seat in the aircraft will set a passenger back, one of its competitors, Virgin Galactic, has offered rides between $200,000 and $450,000, according to the Associated Press.

Can anyone book a Blue Origin flight?

Yes, anyone can book a trip on a Blue Origin flight. The company has a reservation page where potential passengers are asked to fill out a form with basic information like their name, address, and birth year since they must be at least 18 years old to fly. There is also a section where you can tell Blue Origin about yourself in 500 words or less.

No ticket prices are listed on the reservation page, but there is an acknowledgment at the bottom alerting the amateur astronauts that a “fully refundable deposit” of $150,000 will be collected “to begin the order process.”

After you submit your details, it’s unclear what the next steps are, but it says at the bottom of the reservation page that “filling out this form does not guarantee you a seat on a future New Shepard flight.”

How often does Blue Origin launch into space?

The first crewed Blue Origin flight blasted off in 2021 with Bezos, Shatner, Daemen, Bezos’ brother Mark and aviator Wally Funk, according to the company. Space flights were paused for nearly two years following a 2022 mission failure, per Reuters. Before the April 14 launch, the last crewed flight took place on Feb. 25, 2025, the company said.

The April 14 launch was the 11th crewed flight out of Blue Origin’s 31 missions, according to the company. To date, the program has flown 52 people above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space; this was the first all-female flight crew since Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963.