Jeff Bezos goes into space

Jeff Bezos will be aboard the first human flight of Blue Origin, the Amazonary billionaire has confirmed today, a daring hoCade with the confidence he has in the spaceship of his company. Bezos will be joined by his brother, Mark Bezos, on board New Shepard during his launch on July 20, 2021.

“Since I was five, I dreamed of traveling in space,” Bezos said. “On July 20, I will take this trip with my brother. The biggest avenue, with my best friend.”

The announcement confirms the majority of the New Shepard crew for its inaugural human flight. Another place on the spaceship is the price of an ongoing auction, with auction currently at $ 2.8 million. The product will go to the club for the future, foundation of Blue Origin, which supports the stems efforts.

For Bezos, this is a big step after announceting the intention of removing daily operations in Amazon. The retailer confirmed in February that Bezos’s role would move to the Executive Chair, where he will be replaced by Andy Jassy as CEO. Last week Bezos revealed that the transfer will take place on July 5, just 15 days before its spatial flight is planned.

Blue origin, the rocket company that Bezos founded has planned commercial missions and spatial tourism. This first flight of the crew, however, graze the edges of what is accepted as space. The new Shepard will cross the line of Kármán, a limit of 62 miles above the average level of the sea of ​​the earth, which was an attempt to legal definition of the border.

Zero-G will start from the third minute in flight, then at a given time between and the culminating point of the flight, or apogee, four minutes, Bezos and the other on board will be officially passed in space. Severity will come back to about six minutes after launch, with parachutes deployed nine minutes and finally a landing about 10 minutes after take-off.

Although the mission can be relatively short, the spatial flight in general remains a risky perspective. Although the Bezos, like many, we can have hosted eagerly to experiment with space since childhood, it is also a huge indication of the billionaire’s faith in the technology of blue origin. New Shepard has crossed 15 successful consecutive missions and has demonstrated three exhaust tests, with redundant systems for both theft and landing. Even if two of the three parachutes of the capsule had to fail, the third is always enough to bring it – and the crew on board – safely on the earth.