And if you go to space and see how fragile it is, you'll want to take care of it even more. In other words, a launch that today costs 60 million or 100 million. "This isn't about escaping Earth," Bezos added. Two months later, the rocket did just that, blasting off and landing a second time. "We need to that to solve the problems here on Earth. "We're going to build a road to space so that our kids and their kids can build a future," he said. “We have lots of problems here and now on Earth and we need to work on those and we also need to look to the future."Īfter his return, Bezos framed it a different way.
The mission, called NS-19, marked the first time the company launched six passengers at once and. "Space travel is an exciting idea, but right now we need to focus on Earth," Sanders tweeted earlier this month.īefore the flight, Bezos acknowledged that his critics are “largely right.” Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin on Saturday launched its New Shepard rocket for the sixth time this year. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who see it as nothing more than a vanity project. SpaceNews: Blue Origin within a few weeks of resuming New Shepard flights. The pursuit of space tourism among billionaires has sparked criticism from those, like Sen. Reflight of the failed NS-23 mission from September 2022 of which all payloads returned safely to the ground. The crew aboard New Shepard, Blue Origin’s reusable rocketcompany founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old Mercury 17 astronaut candidate Wally Funk, and 18-year-old paying. (The actual winner, who remains anonymous for now, had a “scheduling conflict” and will go on a later flight.) "Best day ever," Bezos said from the autonomous capsule after it landed.īezos was joined by his younger brother, Mark Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk, an 82-year-old female aviation pioneer and Oliver Daemen, 18, the son of the chief executive of a private equity investment firm and one of the runners-up in a $28 million charitable auction for the mission’s final seat. The flight lasted just over 10 minutes, with the crew experiencing a few minutes of weightlessness before returning safely to Earth.
The 57-year-old Amazon founder, his brother and two others stepped into the New Shepard rocket in Van Horn, Texas, on Tuesday - the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Nine days after the billionaire Richard Branson made history by becoming the first person to launch himself into space on his own Virgin Galactic plane, his fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos did the same on a rocket from his company Blue Origin.
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