Jeff BezosThe richest man on earth is about to fly to the edge of space.
Billionaire founder Amazon with Blue origin I am taking a New Shepard rocket to reach the Carmen Line-an imaginary boundary 100 kilometers above sea level, where many experts say space begins. There, he is expected to experience weightlessness and magnificent views of the earth for about three minutes.
Bezos will not fly alone. His brother Mark and an 18-year-old Dutch high school graduate named Mark will join him. Oliver Damon with Wally Fink, An 82-year-old pilot who received space training in the 1960s, but was eventually denied the opportunity because she was a woman.
New Shepard has successfully flown 15 times, but has never been manned. This will be its first passenger flight.
The rocket is scheduled to be launched from Blue Origin’s launch site in Texas at around 8 am (around 3 pm South Africa time) on Tuesday. The company is live streaming the space flight, in the video embedded below, starting at 6:30 AM Central Time (around 1 PM South Africa Time).
Blue origin Indicates that there will not be any “public viewing area” near the launch site.
“I’m so excited. I can’t wait to see what it will look like,” Bezos told Nowadays on Monday. “Those who said they went into space and they came back changed. Astronauts are always talking about this-whether it’s the thin limit of the earth’s atmosphere or seeing how fragile the earth is, it’s just a planet. So I wait It’s too late to see what it will do to me.”
How Jeff Bezos and his companions will fly to the edge of space
If everything goes according to plan, the new Shepard rocket will start the engine and lift itself from the launch pad. When Bezos and his guests screamed in the atmosphere, the power of climbing and the gravity of the earth-which should feel three times as high as normal-are expected to fix them on their seats.
After three minutes, the rocket booster should fall from the passenger capsule. The capsule should continue to draw arcs over the earth, and Bezos and his companions should feel weightless.
They are expected to have three minutes to unfasten their seat belts, float around the cabin, and enjoy the view of the curved planet below. Then gravity should pull the spaceship into high speed and fall back to Earth. Three parachutes should be lifted off to prevent the spacecraft from falling and take the capsule to the Texas desert for a gentle landing. Rescuers should be waiting.
The entire flight should last 11 minutes.
Richard Branson was first launched into space, but he did not pass the Carmen Line
Virgin Galactic
Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Galactic, took the company’s space plane on Sunday. Although Branson insisted that there was no competition between him and Bezos, Virgin Galactic changed the launch schedule, allowing Branson to reach the edge of space before Bezos.
As far as Blue Origin is concerned, it insists that Branson Did not actually go into space Because he only flew to about 88 kilometers above sea level.
“They didn’t fly over the Carmen line. It was a very different experience,” Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith Tell the New York Times After Branson announced his flight.
Blue Origin pursues Virgin Galactic more directly Twitter Two days before Branson’s launch, I shared a chart comparing the company’s space plane with the Blue Origin rocket.
“From the very beginning, the New Shepard was designed to fly over the Carmen Line, so there is no asterisk next to the names of our astronauts,” Blue Origin tweeted. “For 96% of the world’s population, space begins at the internationally recognized Carmen line above 100 kilometers.”
The 4% of the tweet refers to the United States. Both NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration have issued astronaut wings to pilots flying more than 100 kilometers.
