Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has sent six more people into space for a short trip. Entrepreneurs Marty Allen, Jim Kitchen, George Nield, Sharon and Marc Hagle, and Gary Lai, an executive at Bezos space company Blue Origin, took off Thursday aboard the New Shepard missile system in western Texas, seen on live footage from Company.
About ten minutes later, the capsule of the largely automated missile system landed again using parachutes. Blue Origin does not want to say how much the entrepreneurs paid for their tickets. It was the company’s fourth manned spaceflight.
At the first in July 2021, Amazon founder Bezos himself was on board. The second, in October 2021, was attended by 90-year-old Canadian actor William Shatner, best known for his role as Captain Kirk on Star Trek. The third flight in December 2021 included the daughter of the first American in space, Laura Shepard Churchley, and TV host Michael Strahan.
The fourth flight was originally scheduled for March 23 – with American comedian Pete Davidson as “guest of honor”. However, after the postponement, Davidson could no longer be there, Blue Origin had announced. Blue Origin did not initially say whether the comedian would be able to fly into space at a later date.
Source: Krone
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