{"id":132817,"date":"2021-07-20T13:33:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T13:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=132817"},"modified":"2021-07-20T13:33:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T13:33:16","slug":"jeff-bezos-worlds-richest-man-boards-spacecraft-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/markets\/jeff-bezos-worlds-richest-man-boards-spacecraft-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos, world's richest man, boards spacecraft in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, and three crewmates boarded his company Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle on Tuesday in the West Texas desert ahead of its planned suborbital journey, a milestone flight set to help usher in a new era of private space travel.<\/p>

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of ecommerce company Amazon.com Inc, and his brother Mark board ahead of their scheduled flight aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket near Van Horn, Texas, U.S. July 20, 2021 in a still image from video. Blue Origin\/Handout via REUTERS. .<\/figcaption>

The American billionaire is due to fly on an 11-minute voyage to the edge of space, nine days after Briton Richard Branson was aboard his competing space tourism company Virgin Galactic’s successful inaugural suborbital flight here from New Mexico.<\/p>\n

There were generally clear skies with a few patchy clouds on a cool morning for the launch.<\/p>\n

Bezos, wearing a blue flight suit and cowboy hat, and the other passengers climbed into an SUV vehicle for a short drive to the launch pad before walking up a tower and getting aboard the gleaming white spacecraft, with a blue feather design on its side. Each passenger rang a shiny bell before boarding the craft\u2019s capsule.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are in for the flight of a lifetime,\u201d launch presenter Ariane Cornell of Blue Origin said on a live webcast.<\/p>\n

Branson got to space first, but Bezos is due to fly higher – 62 miles (100 km) for Blue Origin compared to 53 miles (86 km) for Virgin Galactic – in what experts call the world’s first here unpiloted space flight with an all-civilian crew. It represents Blue Origin’s first crewed flight to space.<\/p>\n

Bezos, founder of ecommerce company Amazon.com Inc, and his brother Mark Bezos, a private equity executive, will be joined by two others. Pioneering female aviator Wally Funk here, 82, and recent high school graduate Oliver Daemen here, 18, are set to become the oldest and youngest people to reach space.<\/p>\n

New Shepard is due to blast off around 8 a.m. CDT (1300 GMT) from Blue Origin\u2019s Launch Site One facility about 20 miles (32 km) outside the rural Texas town of Van Horn.<\/p>

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\u201cI am excited, but not anxious. We\u2019ll see how I feel when I\u2019m strapped into my seat,\u201d Bezos told Fox Business Network on Monday. \u201c… We\u2019re ready. The vehicle\u2019s ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

The flight coincides with the anniversary of Americans Neil Armstrong and Edwin \u201cBuzz\u201d Aldrin becoming the first humans to walk on the moon, on July 20, 1969.<\/p>\n

Funk was one of the so-called Mercury 13 group of women who trained to become NASA astronauts in the early 1960s but was passed over because of her gender. Daemen, Blue Origin\u2019s first paying customer, is set to study physics and innovation management in the Netherlands. His father, who heads investment management firm Somerset Capital Partners, was on site to watch his son fly to space.<\/p>\n

The launch will also be witnessed by members of the Bezos family and Blue Origin employees, and a few spectators gathered along the highway before dawn.<\/p>\n

MINUTES OF WEIGHTLESSNESS<\/h2>\n

New Shepard is a 60-foot-tall (18.3-meters-tall) and fully autonomous rocket-and-capsule combo that cannot be piloted from inside the spacecraft. It is completely computer-flown and will have none of Blue Origin’s staff astronauts here or trained personnel onboard.<\/p>\n

Virgin Galactic used a space plane with a pair of pilots onboard.<\/p>\n

New Shepard will hurtle at speeds upwards of 2,200 miles (3,540 km) per hour to an altitude of about 62 miles (100 km), the so-called K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line set by an international aeronautics body as defining the boundary between Earth\u2019s atmosphere and space.<\/p>\n

After the capsule separates from the booster, the crew will be able to unbuckle for a few minutes of weightlessness. Then the capsule falls back to Earth under parachutes, using a last-minute retro-thrust system that expels a \u201cpillow of air\u201d for a soft landing in the Texas desert.<\/p>\n

The reusable booster has already flown twice to space.<\/p>\n

The launch is another step in the race to establish a space tourism sector that Swiss investment bank UBS estimates will reach $3 billion annually in a decade. Another billionaire tech mogul, Elon Musk, plans to send an all-civilian crew on a several-day orbital mission on his Crew Dragon capsule in September.<\/p>\n

On Twitter, Musk wished bit.ly\/2TqOL9I the Blue Origin crew “best of luck” for the launch.<\/p>\n

Blue Origin aims for the first of two more passenger flights this year to happen in September or October.<\/p>\n

Blue Origin appears to have a reservoir of future customers. More than 6,000 people from at least 143 countries entered an auction to become the first paying customer. The auction winner, who made a $28 million bid, dropped out of Tuesday\u2019s flight, opening the way for Daemen. Virgin Galactic has said 600 people have booked reservations, priced at about $250,000 per ticket.<\/p>\n

Branson has said he aims ultimately to lower the price to about $40,000 per seat.<\/p>\n

Bezos has a net worth of $206 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires. He stepped down this month as Amazon CEO but remains its executive chairman.<\/p>\n

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