Share:The first manned commercial spaceflight of billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company has successfully landed. The flight lasted 10 minutes 10 seconds from takeoff to landing, with the spacecraft taking its passengers to an altitude of 107 km. The crew on board were Bezos himself, his brother Mike, an 82-year-old female aviator Wally Funk, who in the sixties was denied the chance to go into space because she was a woman, and an 18-year-old Oliver Daemen from the Netherlands, who paid $28 million for his seat in a charity auction that closed last month. Funk and Daemen have become the oldest and the youngest people to have travelled to space. After the New Shepard capsule landed, social media users started posting their congratulations to the team and the Blue Origin company.

Source: The Nation July 20, 2021 14:26 UTC