Blue Origin, founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos in 2000, is an American privately-funded aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company. Headquartered in Kent, Washington, Blue Origin focuses on developing technologies to enable private human access to space at lower costs and increased reliability. The company is known for its New Shepard suborbital rocket, which is designed to take tourists to the edge of space. The New Shepard rocket has successfully flown multiple uncrewed test flights, and its first crewed flight took place in July 2021, carrying Jeff Bezos and three other passengers to space and back.