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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Amazon laminitis and Palmetto Senior High School alumni Jeff Bezos made past aft successfully launching into space.
After the flight, Bezos said it was conscionable the opening for backstage quality abstraction travel.
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Floating connected unreality 9 much than 65 miles supra Earth, the Blue Origins for civilian astronauts tossed ping pong balls and Skittles. For Bezos, it was the microgravity imagination helium archetypal imagined arsenic a five-year-old watching the Apollo 11 satellite landing 52 years to the day.
Blue Origin’s rocket velocity peaked astatine 3 times the velocity of sound. Less than 3 minutes into the flight, the rocket and New Shepard capsule separated. For 1 of the astir improbable abstraction crews ever instant weightlessness lasting respective minutes.
“It felt truthful mean and natural, astir similar we were humans were evolved to beryllium successful zero G, which of people is impossible, but it felt that way,” said Jeff Bezos’ member Mark who was connected the flight.
Eight minutes into the flight, the reusable afloat automated rocket landed vertically a mates of miles from its motorboat pad. About 2 minutes later, the capsule itself, 3 parachutes lowered it onto the westbound Texas desert. The thrill thrust lasting each of 10 minutes and 10 seconds.
The Bezos brothers spoke with CBS This Morning’s Gayle King.
“I deliberation radical don’t recognize that erstwhile you get into space, and you tin spot the Earth’s atmosphere. It’s truthful bladed and fragile looking, truthful we bash person to instrumentality attraction of this planet,” said Jeff Bezos.
They called this a bonding infinitesimal for the 2 of them.
“My member and I, we picked seats truthful that we could spot each different from our seats, truthful we could look implicit and we had we did, we had immoderate we had immoderate truly bully prime clip there,” said Jeff Bezos.
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“There was besides a connection that was work from our sister,” said Mark Bezos.
“I know, I person it,” said King
“Oh God, it was beautiful,” said Mark Bezos.
“She says ‘now hurry up and get your (expletive) backmost down present truthful I tin springiness you a immense hug. We emotion you and Godspeed New Shepard,” said King speechmaking from the message.
Jeff Bezos said helium teared up successful the capsule erstwhile speechmaking his sister’s message.
Each unit subordinate received astronaut wings including aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who was barred from NASA’s initially all-male astronaut corps successful the 1960s. On Tuesday, she yet got her accidental to beryllium the naysayers incorrect and realized a lifelong dream.
“I privation to convey you sweetheart due to the fact that you made it imaginable for me,” she told Jeff Bezos.
Blue Origin already has 2 much flights planned for this year, taking tourists to the borderline of space. Bezos said summons income person topped $100 million.
Bezos intends to usage his Amazon wealthiness to physique a caller empire successful space, competing for sub-orbital tourists with Virgin Galatic and Richard Branson, who reached abstraction successful a rocket-powered level 9 days up of Bezos.
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In this property of abstraction barons, Bezos plans to colonize the cosmos, launching radical into abstraction to unrecorded and work.
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