The Monthly Episode August 2021 Page 7

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Billionaires Lift Off
Aboard July 20, Jeff Bezos, the millionaire creator of Blue Origin, launched into suborbital space with three other people on the company's New Shepard aircraft, marking a watershed moment for the man and the space tourism industry.  “Blue Control, Bezos. Best day ever!” Bezos said while in flight.

The autonomous New Shepard, which is made up of a rocket and a capsule, took off from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in Van Horn, Texas, at 9:11 a.m. The capsule lifted Bezos, his brother Mark, 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and 18-year-old Dutch physics student Oliver Daemen 66.5 miles (107 kilometers) above Earth before landing in the West Texas scrublands with a parachute-assisted, dust-raising landing. The rocket returned successfully as well, landing vertically and powered at its chosen landing zone. The flight was followed by a thunderous sonic boom and wild shouts from the Blue Origin employees who were there.

Blue Origin and It’s Crew Set History
The crew included Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen, who all officially became astronauts When they cleared the Kármán Line, the globally recognized space boundary.  Wally Funk, 82, has set the record for the oldest person to travel in space.
Oliver Daemen, 18, became the first commercial astronaut to buy a ticket and travel to space aboard a privately-funded and licenced spacecraft launched from a private launch facility. He was also the world's youngest space traveller.

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