This November, you can own a replica model of the rocket that transported him for just 69.99. The suborbital rocket has a domed, wide capsule on top. On July 20, the billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos briefly went to space. Billionaire Jeff Bezos went to the edge of space on Tuesday in Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. VAN HORN, Texas For 10 minutes and 10 seconds on Tuesday, Jeff Bezos wasn’t the richest man on Earth. The motley crew will be aboard the space tourism company’s New Shepard rocket, which is set to blast off around 9 a.m. A view of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. His group at Embry-Riddle has sent cargo up on previous New Shepard launches in 20. Blue Origin’s rocket launches to edge of space, carrying Jeff Bezos and crew. "The main reason the design looks like this is because Jeff's first goal is to send people to space, so everything revolves around having four to six people in the cabin and so maximizing cabin volume," Llanos told Insider. VAN HORN, Texas Jeff Bezos, the richest human in the world, went to space on Tuesday. New Shepard's characteristic shape was designed to optimize cabin space for up to six passengers and maximize the rocket's stability when coming back to Earth, according to Pedro Llanos, an engineer and professor of spaceflight operations at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The New Shepard rocket's tumescent shape was low-hanging fruit to social-media users who were quick to point out the craft's phallic design and wonder whether that design meant its billionaire passenger was compensating for something.īut experts say this suborbital sausage fest was anything but accidental.
Blue Origin The rocket launches vertically, with the booster detaching and returning to land at a concrete. It often indicates a user profile.īlue Origin founder Jeff Bezos flew to the edge of space Tuesday in a company rocket that had a bulbous passenger capsule sitting atop a tall, narrow booster shaft. You can't help but immediately laugh when you see the rocket ship Jeff Bezos built.Sure, it's puerile, but that doesn't make it any less funny, something the endless number of Internet memes. Jeff Bezos opens the hatch of the New Shepard capsule after a test flight in April 2021. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. William Shatner Blasts off to Space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Rocket At 90 years old, the actor William Shatner became the oldest person to travel to space and cross the Kármán line. VAN HORN, Texas (AP) Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company’s first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own.
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