Jeff Bezos Goes Into The Sky. Day Two: Blastoff

Just a few A few months ago, Blue Origin, an aerospace company founded and funded by Jeff Bezos, did not see it in the news on July 20, 2021. But that is exactly what happened.

It was the day Mary Wallace (Wally) Funk went into space.

Yes, yes, Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was also in the capsule, as well as, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, his first paid client. And Jeff’s brother, who called him “the funniest man in the air,” was lauded by some of the most popular astronomers in West Texas today at the event. (Their testimony is 2 Support the Astronauts podcast with Mike Massimino and Garrett Reisman.)

But while sending the world’s richest man and gambling, as well as the advent of tourism is a very important part, Wally Funk and Great sui. In an article published in a thousand newspapers this week, 1960, Funk was the first Mercury 13, a group trained to be women’s first female initiatives. But NASA refused to take part in the program, and for the past 60 years, Funk, a pilot and aerospace aerospace researcher, has been reluctant to sit in the air seat. In 2010, he signed a $ 200,000 contract instead Richard Branson’s VSS Oneness, expecting the Virgin Galactic suborbital aircraft for another decade. Disappointment is built because his day is not near. Then, all of a sudden, Bezos gave him a place in the launch of New Shepard today.

WIRED Steven Levy reports daily from Van Horn, Texas, where Jeff Bezos was one of the riders on the New Origin Blue Rocket rocket. You can read shipping from Day 1 here.

As the world has learned today, he was much better prepared. Participants repeatedly claimed that the octogenarian was highly prepared and fit for their group, and today his power was felt by all. Even when the workers were tied up in a bag waiting to take off – a time when one is less forgiving – they were still struggling to make their way to Kármán. “I felt guilty,” she said later.

“We sat for six minutes and they wondered how long it was going,” Bezos said. “So what else! Too hot!”

Obviously, when New Shepard he fled, and he rode 65 miles into the air, he had come out of his chair and done crazy things. “Oh! I love it! I love it! ”He cried, as he and his co-workers did what seemed to be a change for the better Pilobolus group.

On a flight press conference, had a room since he boarded. (Considering that the room was a “barn,” the space on the Blue Origin large enough to carry a New Shepard rocket behind it, that is to say. a courageous victory like that of Megan Rapinoe. Each time she speaks, she stands up, holds her face and appreciates her comments. The crowd, which included journalists, friends and relatives, as well as Alan Shepard’s two daughters, ate.