The world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, will fly from a desert site it Texas on an 11-minute trip to the edge of space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard. Bezos did a round of televised interviews ahead of the launch, set for about 8am (central time) from Blue Origin's Launch Site One facility 32km outside the rural Texas town of Van Horn. I want to know what we're going to learn," Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc, told the CBS This Morning programme. And that happened a long time ago," Bezos said on the NBC's programme Today, referring to the Soviet cosmonaut who reached space in 1961. "Back when Wally was part of the Mercury 13, all the testing that she did, she outperformed all of the men," Bezos said on Today.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 20, 2021 02:37 UTC