Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who was about to fly into space for the first time, said he was curious, not nervous.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Jeff Bezos will fly into space with his New Shepherd spacecraft today.
- Bezos is accompanied by his brother and two other people.
- The Bezos flight would take off from the Blue Origin launch site at around 8:00 a.m. CDT (6:30 p.m. IST).
The day has finally come when ex-Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will fulfill his childhood dream and fly into space. Bezos, who was going into space for the first time, said he was not nervous, but curious. Bezos had previously announced that he would fly into space with his brother Mark and two other passengers on the first suborbital flight of his company Blue Origin. The spaceship would house Bezos, his brother, a female pilot who also happens to be the oldest in the lot, and an 18-year-old boy who paid an exorbitant amount to share the flight with the co-founder of Amazon.
“People keep asking if I’m nervous. I’m not really nervous, I’m excited. I’m curious. I want to know what we’re going to learn, “Bezos, founder of Amazon, was quoted by Reuters as saying. “We trained. This vehicle is ready. This crew is ready. This team is amazing. We just feel very good about it, ”he said.
Bezos will take off from a desert location in West Texas along with three other people. It would be an 11-minute journey to the edge of space in the New Shepard space of his company Blue Origin, a 60-foot-tall, fully autonomous rocket and capsule combination. Its flight would depart from Blue Origin’s launch site, located outside of the rural Texas city, at around 8:00 a.m. CDT (6:30 p.m. IST).
Bezos would be accompanied by his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old pilot Wally Funk, and 18-year-old Oliver Damean, a high school graduate. Funk, who is one of the passengers, was supposed to fly into space 60 years ago, she too passed the required tests, but the only thing that hindered her travel into space was her gender. Oliver, on the other hand, is the only paying passenger who goes on board. The 18-year-old paid an exorbitant $ 28 million price to fly Bezos into space. He defeated over 7,600 bidders from 159 countries to get a place on the Bezos spacecraft. His father reportedly paid the large amount while running investment firm Somerset Capital Partners.
A few days before Bezos’ flight into space, Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson flew into space on July 11th. He boarded Virgin Galactic’s Unity 22 flight from the Mojave Desert in New Mexico. Richard was accompanied by five crew members, including Indian-born Sirisha Bandla.
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