Jeff Bezos Thanks Amazon Employees For Funding His Space Trip, Wants To Move Polluting Industries To Space
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Jeff Bezos during the post flight conference. Image: Blue Origin
Retail billionaire and founder of Kent, Washington-based aerospace launch services provider Blue Origin Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark Bezos described their experience onboard Blue Origin's maiden crewed New Shepard mission which took to the skies earlier today in a post-landing interview given to MSNBC. The duo, who were joined by veteran aviator and pilot trainer Wally Funk and eighteen-year-old Oliver Damien during their maiden voyage beyond the Karman line on the New Shepard, kicking off operational crewed flights for Blue Origin's rocket and capsule, which intend to take researchers and others beyond the atmospheric space boundary as part of a growing space economy.