Jeff Bezos goes to space.Day 2: Blasting

Only a few A few months ago, Blue Origin, a space company founded and funded by Jeff Bezos, did not expect it to make history on July 20, 2021. But this is what happened.

It was the day when Mary Wallace (Wally) Funk went to space.

Oh yes, yes, Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos are also in the capsule with 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, he is his first pay Space customers. Jeff’s brother, who called him “the most interesting person in space,” many experienced space reporters in West Texas today questioned the launch. (Their evidence is 2 Funny astronaut podcast Hosted by Mike Massimino and Garrett Reisman. )

But while sending the richest man in the world into space is an amazing start, and the emergence of commercial space tourism is a milestone, Wally Fink is unique.A thousand media outlets are telling and retelling a story this week. In 1960, Funk was part of the original Mercury 13, A group of trainees became the first female astronauts. But NASA will not sign the plan, and in the past 60 years, expert pilots and hard-working aviation safety investigator Fink has become obsessed with occupying the seat of the spacecraft that rejected her. In 2010, she signed up for a US$200,000 quota Richard Branson’s VSS Unite, Looking forward to a Virgin Galactic suborbital flight sometime in that decade. Since her date had never been close, she felt frustrated. Then, unexpectedly, Bezos provided her with a space at today’s New Shepard conference.

wired’s Steven Levy reports daily from Van Horn, Texas, that Jeff Bezos is one of the first passengers of Blue Origin’s new Shepard rocket system.You can read The schedule from day 1 is here.

As the world today knows, she is fully prepared. Her crew have repeatedly claimed that this 80-something-year-old is the most well-prepared and healthiest of the group, and of course everyone knows her energy today. Even if the crew were tied up in the space capsule and waited for lift-off-when people would forgive a little anxiety-she was still impatiently tense towards the Carmen line. “I’m very excited,” she said later.

“We have six minutes to wait, and she wants to know what took so long,” Bezos said. “I’ll take it! We are burning the sun!”

Sure enough, when the new Shepard take off And climbing 65 miles into space, she left her seat and performed crazy moves. “Haha! I like it! I like it!” She cried because she and her crew were frolicking in what looked like mutants Piloboulos dancing club.

After the flight Press conference, From the moment she stepped onto the stage, she owned this room. (Considering that this room is a “barn”, a facility on the Blue Origin base, large enough to place the new Shepard rocket behind her, this shows something.) She didn’t wander to her like everyone else. Instead, she moved to the edge and stood on her stage, opening her arms. This was a victory as bold as Megan Rapinoe. Every time she spoke, she would stand up, raise the microphone to her face, and make a loud comment. The crowd included reporters, the crew’s friends and family, and the two daughters of Alan Shepard, who ate it all.