For this crew, Blue Origin had made spaceflight feel almost as smooth as same-day shipping. The rocket was back on the launchpad, standing tall, after tearing through the atmosphere with a sonic boom. The Blue Origin rocket rose into the sky with a rumble that echoed across the West Texas desert, and about 11 minutes later, it was all over-the passenger capsule parachuted down, and the Bezos brothers, Funk, and Daemen climbed out, grinning widely. The journey was lightning-fast by spaceflight standards. By going first, Bezos wanted to prove that his vehicle is safe, and that Blue Origin is finally ready to make its 11-minute suborbital trips an experience people can buy. Before today, Bezos’s private space company, Blue Origin, had not flown its rocket with any people on board. This morning, the richest person on Earth boarded a reusable rocket he dreamed up and funded, launched to the edge of space to experience a few minutes of weightlessness, and then came back down.īezos made the trip with three people who decided they trusted him enough with their lives: his brother, Mark Bezos Wally Funk, a storied aviator and Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old fresh out of high school.
VAN HORN, Texas-Jeff Bezos really flew to space. Bezos graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1986, and was named TIME Magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.Updated at 1:45 p.m. The Bezos Earth Fund helps fund nonprofits preserving and protecting the natural world, and The Bezos Day One Fund provides grants to nonprofits to help homeless families and is creating a network of preschools in low-income communities. Bezos has launched two philanthropic organizations. Bezos is also the founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, which is working to lower the cost and increase the safety of spaceflight, and he is owner of the Washington Post.
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