Why Has Jeff Bezos Planned To Go To Space ?
Jeff Bezos along with fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Richard Branson have been investing billions of dollars on their rocket startups, but Bezos will be the first one among the three to travel into space on a rocket developed by his own company.
Who is Jeff Bezos ?
Jeffrey Preston Bezos was born on January 12, 1964, the founder and CEO of the multinational technology company Amazon. Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and later Miami, Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994, on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company expanded to a wide variety of other e-commerce products and services like cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is currently the world's largest provider of virtual assistant and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch. Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015, and afterward successfully landed back on Earth.
Space Trip by Blue Origin:
The billionaire Jeff Bezos said on Monday, June 7, 2021, he and his brother Mark will fly on the first crewed space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin next month. An 82-year-old woman who has spent six decades trying to reach space will join Jeff Bezos on the first human flight by his space company on July 20,2021. In 1961, Funk was the youngest member of the “Mercury 13,” a group of 13 women privately tested and trained by a team of aviation medical experts for NASA’s astronaut program at the height of the space race. But the program, which put the women through the same rigorous testing as the Mercury 7, NASA’s all-male team of original astronauts, was canceled. Sixty years later, Funk has become the oldest person to reach space at the age of 82.
"Ever since I was five years old, I've dreamed of traveling to space. On July 20th, I will take that journey with my brother," Bezos, who is one of the richest people in the world, said in an Instagram post. Bezos, who is due to step down as Amazon's chief on July 5, will join the winner of an auction for a seat on the first space flight from Blue Origin on the 52nd anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's moon landing.
In an Instagram post, Bezos announced in a video message that he will be on Blue Origin's first flight to space with his brother Mark. "To see the Earth from space, it changes you, it changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity. It's one Earth," Bezos says in the video.
On July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin blasted off from the Florida coast with the mission of landing on the moon and collecting samples of its surface. Four days later, on July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin set foot on the moon, planting the American flag and capturing iconic footage of their voyage.
The Blue Origin spacecraft, which is set to carry Bezos and others, has undergone 15 test flights, none of which had any passengers onboard.
Blue Origin closed the first round of the auction last month and said it had received more than 5,200 bidders from 136 countries, without disclosing the highest bid from the round.
The current highest bid stood at $2.8 million in the ongoing second round of the auction, according to Blue Origin's website. With 20 active bidders starting at $4.8m during the 10-minute auction, bids escalated in the final three minutes of the sale. Initially, about 7,600 people registered to bid from 159 countries, the company said. The auction was held on Saturday and within four minutes, bids breached the $20 million (roughly Rs. 150 crores) mark. The bidding closed seven minutes after it began. The company said the winning bid amount, $28 million, will be donated to Blue Origin's foundation, Club for the Future, to help it inspire future generations to invent the future of life in space. In a statement, Blue Origin said the name of the auction winner will be released in the coming weeks after some formalities are completed.
Its New Shepard rocket-and-capsule combo is designed to autonomously fly six passengers more than 62 miles (100 km) above Earth into suborbital space, high enough to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of the planet before the pressurized capsule returns to earth under parachutes.
The capsule features six observation windows and is nearly three times as tall as those on a Boeing 747 jetliner and the largest ever used in space, Blue Origin said.
Bezos's rocket startup is targeting July 20 for its first suborbital sightseeing trip, a landmark moment in a competition to usher in a new era of private commercial space travel.
Passengers, the company has said, must be between 5ft and 6ft 4in tall, weighing 110-223lb. They must also be able to climb seven flights of stairs at the launch tower in less than 90 seconds and sit strapped in the vehicle for as long as 90 minutes without access to a lavatory.
Further, they should be able to withstand gravitational forces of as much as 5.5 times the person's normal weight during descent and three times the weight for as long as two minutes on the ascent.
The startup was planning to charge passengers at least $200,000 for the ride, based on an appraisal of rival plans from Branson's Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc and other considerations, Reuters reported in 2018, but its thinking may have changed.
Two petitions on change.org surfaced a few days after Bezos announced he is going to space. One of them titled, "Do not allow Jeff Bezos to return to Earth" has been signed by more than 40,000 people. It says "Billionaire's should not exist… on Earth, or in space, but should they decide the latter they should stay there (sic)."
The other petition, signed by over 20,000 people so far, claims: "… he's an evil overlord hellbent on global domination. We've known this for years. Jeff has worked with the Epsteins and the Knights Templar, as well as the FreeMasons to gain control over the whole world. He's also in bed with the flat earth deniers; it's the only way they'll allow him to leave the atmosphere.
Virgin Galactic founder and billionaire Richard Branson announced Thursday he will travel beyond the Earth’s atmosphere in a test flight set for July 11. If the launch goes according to plan, he’ll be the first billionaire in space, setting the record just nine days ahead of the first planned spaceflight of another obscenely rich astronaut wannabe—Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
What is Blue Origin ?
Blue Origin, LLC is an American privately-funded aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington, founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the founder, and chief executive officer of Amazon, the company is led by CEO Bob Smith. Rob Meyerson led Blue Origin from 2003 to 2017 and served as its first president. The company's name refers to the blue planet, Earth, as the point of origin.
Initially focused on suborbital spaceflight, the company has designed, built, and flown multiple testbeds of its New Shepard vehicle at its facilities in Culberson County, Texas. On nearly every one of the test flights since 2015, the uncrewed vehicle has reached a test altitude of more than 100 kilometers (330,000 ft) and achieved a top speed of more than 3,675 km/h, reaching space above the Karman line. Blue Origin moved into the orbital spaceflight technology business in 2014, initially as a rocket engine supplier. The new engine, the Blue Engine 4, or BE-4, is a change for Blue Origin in that it is their first engine that will combust liquid oxygen and liquid methane propellants.
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