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| Watch: Bezos launches white phallus with blue lines into space (businessinsider.com) |
Blue Origin launches first human spaceflight with Jeff Bezos
Blue Origin’s first passenger spaceflight launched early this morning, Tuesday, July 21, 2021.
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| Female aerospace pioneer Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk, then and now, early pilot, late astronaut |
RECAP: The journey was a success, with the company’s rocket carrying founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, female aerospace pioneer Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk, and Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen ["Demon"].
The company will be holding a press conference with the "astronauts."
Jeff Bezos’s flight to the edge of space: Key questions answered
Aljazeera.com edited by Wisdom Quarterly
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| (P. K. Dutta/aljazeera.com, 7/19/21) |
Bezos, currently the world’s richest person, blasted off on board his company Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle for a suborbital flight as part of a history-making crew – another milestone in ushering in a new era of private space travel.
The US multi-billionaire and Amazon founder is due to fly from a desert site in West Texas on a voyage nine days after British rival Sir Dick Branson went on his competing [edge of] space tourism company Virgin Galactic’s successful inaugural suborbital flight from New Mexico. More
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| Fake illustration/artist's rendition of flights from earth for "astronauts" (Blue Origin via AP) |
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