If we want the illusion ended when the capsule just landed was opened: cameras, microphones, shouts of joy, crowds of collaborators and friends, but business is business and this, at $ 200,000 per passenger, really is.
Thus ends in just ten minutes the first flight with passengers of the vehicle designed by Bezos technicians to bring hundreds of space tourists to look at the Earth from the large panoramic windows, an undoubtedly remarkable live view, for those who can afford it.
We will now have two more launches in 2021, but then it is expected to basically become a routine service, as was stated after the flight by the launch consultant present in streaming.
In addition to Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, 53, was also present as a passenger, also in business with a major advertising company and vice president of Robin Hood, a New York charity, and Oliver Daemen, the 18-year-old son of another billionaire. founding partner of Somerset Capital Partners.
But who probably most of all rejoiced and realized his lifelong dream was Wally Funk, eighty-two, who had already been selected by NASA in the Mercury program in 1961, now the stuff of a history book but who then made a furore in the run-up of the USA to the supremacy of the Soviet Union.