At 8.13 in the morning, Texas time, the New Shepard capsule took off into space, piloted by the richest man in the world, the patron of Amazon. ll rocket, developed by the company of Jeff Bezos, the Blue Origin, unlike its British colleague Richard Branson, will cross the so-called Kármán line, the conventional “boundary” at 100 kilometers in height that marks the beginning of space: 16 kilometers higher than Branson.
A very short journey: a total of 10 minutes. Unlike the Virgin Galactic aircraft, lifted with the help of an airplane and remained in the air for 90 minutes, Blue Origin has developed a conventional rocket and a capsule that separates and allows you to stay a few minutes in zero gravity before descending and land vertically in the nearby Texas desert.
From Amazon to space: today Bezos takes off
by our correspondent Anna Lombardi
This is the first suborbital flight in history with civilians on board. What gives the real start to tourism in space in conditions of microgravity, outside the earth’s atmosphere. His brother will also be on board Mark Bezos, Oliver Daemen e Wally Funk. Daemen and Funk are the youngest astronaut, 18, and oldest, 82, to have gone into space.
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