How much would you pay to fly in space?Make up your mind, because the very first tourist flights could come this year. A Central Florida rocket company completed an important test flight Thursday that could pave the way for tourist launches from Texas.The landing of the window-studded spaceship in the West Texas scrub was perfect."Over the next couple of months, toward the end of this year, we are going to be flying humans on top of this rocket," Ariane Cornell, with Blue Origin, said. Blue Origin, run by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, has a rocket factory near the Kennedy Space Center in Brevard County, but its test-launch site and tourist flight center is in Texas. On Thursday, the company made its clearest statements yet on when civilians might fly."When you guys come down later this year to go fly on New Shepard, you're going to come about a day, day and a half early. We're going to train you, make you feel comfortable," Cornell said.The flight will be aboard a New Shepard rocket carrying a tourist capsule with the largest windows ever flown in space. The only passengers on it Thursday were not people, but experiments, including a University of Central Florida research effort on asteroids. The company has made no formal announcement on when tourists will fly or how much they'll pay for four minutes of weightlessness 65 miles over Texas, but Cornell's hints are getting more and more tantalizing."I think it's so cool that we're sitting here talking about human spaceflight as something that you and I are going to be able to do. What a time to be alive, am I right?" Cornell said.A competing space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, is charging $250,000 a seat for its upcoming flights and signing plenty of customers.