’Excited, curious’, says Jeff Bezos as he gets ready to ride his own rocket to space
Live MintJeff Bezos, the wealthiest man on the planet, will ride his own rocket to outer space today. The flight comes nine days after British billionaire Richard Branson was aboard his company Virgin Galactic's rocket plane for its pioneering suborbital flight from New Mexico. Bezos and three crewmates are due to fly from a desert site in West Texas on an 11-minute trip to the edge of space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard. How Jeff Bezos will soar into space Lift-off is at 8:00 am Central Time from a remote facility in the west Texas desert called Launch Site One, some 25 miles north of the nearest town, Van Horn. Richard Branson’s advice to Jeff Bezos The capsule is entirely automated, unlike Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic rocket plane that required two pilots to get him to space and back a week ago.
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