Bezos, with his $203 billion fortune became the richest person to leave the Earth when the crew of four took off from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in Van Horn, Texas.
Physics student Oliver Daemen, credits Thunderbirds with sparking his fascination with space and rockets at a young age. The 18-year-old recently gained a private pilot’s license.
During an interview with CNN on Monday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was asked about critics who say the flights to space are just ‘joyrides for the wealthy’. He also dished out food for the media.
This will be the first human flight launched by Jeff Bezos owned space company, Blue Origin, and will take place out of their spaceport Launch Site One in Van Horn, Texas.
Virgin Galactic´s Richard Branson is planning to beat Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos being the first to blast off into space on their July 11 flight.
The space tourist, whose identity will be revealed soon, secured their place on the first crewed spaceflight by Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company in an auction.
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