Jeff Bezos is back on shore and today made his first manned mission with his Blue Origin’s New Sheppard. The mission was successful and there was no lack of applause from the technicians of Blue Origin, the space company of the visionary billionaire, who followed the mission for 11 minutes.
“The best day of my life”: this is how Jeff Bezos commented on the success of the suborbital flight from inside the New Sheppard. The owner of the Blue Origin greeted the team rushed to recover the crew from the window with a thumbs up.
All crew members appeared smiling and in excellent condition. Jeff Bezos was the first to come out. Then it was the turn of 18-year-old Dutchman Oliver Daemen, then 82-year-old American Wally Funk came out, looking around with a radiant smile and arms wide open: she had been waiting for this moment for 60 years. Immediately after, Mark Bezos, brother of the founder of the e-commerce giant Amazon, also put his feet back on earth. And to celebrate the successful 11-minute mission into space, all four crew members donned the traditional Texan cowboy hat.
Meanwhile, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic falls on Wall Street, where it loses 4% after the success of Jeff Bezos’ mission.
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