On 7/21/21, Jeff Bezos and 3 others went briefly into space aboard the Blue Origin! I watched it and it was pretty cool, though I wasn’t quite expecting it to be just a few minutes long!
All this as about a week ago Sir Richard Branson took his Virgin Galactic USS Unity into space with 5 pilots and a mission specialist, it’s very fascinating – and I have to wonder – are they racing?
Neither went “into orbit”, but Branson’s was more of an airplane type vehicle wehreas Bezos used a rocket.
My hero in all this is Wally Funk, who was a female astronaut who completed training for the Mercury program back in the 1960s – but essentially was not able to go because she is female. She was on it and fulfilled a lifelong goal to go to space and experience true weightlessness!
Check it out here if you missed the New Shepard Flight:
Everyone on board became an official astronaut when they went past the Kármán Line, the internationally recognized boundary of space at 62 miles above the Earth!
Here’s a great article from Forbes Magazine you might be interested to read: Forbes Article
Check out the Virgin Galactic Website here: https://www.virgingalactic.com