The 57-year-old American billionaire, donning a blue flight suit and cowboy hat, took a trip to the edge of space lasting 10 minutes and 10 seconds. Bezos, who founded Blue Origin in 2000, said this first crewed space flight was a step toward developing a fleet of reusable spacecraft. Bezos flew higher in what experts called the world's first https://www.blueorigin.com/news-archive/first-human-flight-updates unpiloted space flight with an all-civilian crew. Musk earlier wished https://bit.ly/2TqOL9I Blue Origin's crew "best of luck." Daemen, Blue Origin's first paying customer, is set to study physics and innovation management at college in the Netherlands.

Source: The Star July 20, 2021 04:52 UTC