Jeff Bezos is flying to space on Thursday. Here’s everything you need to know

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"Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, is preparing for a rocket-powered, 11-minute 2,300-mph excursion to the edge of space, capping off a month filled with rocket news and a bit of drama among the world’s richest people who are dedicating large portions of their wealth to rocket development."

Jeff Bezos is flying to space. Here’s everything you need to know

Is all this wealth being used for colonizing Mars? It seems a whole lot could be done with the billions of $ in a much more effective way to help mankind.?
 

No, I don't need to know this. Why are people on the internet always writing stuff like, "What you need to know about Covid-19 today!" I need to know how to cook my meals, wash my clothes, take my pills daily and take care of my mental and physical health. A lot of the garbage that is "pushed down my throat" day after day after day I really do not need or want to know. Is this " you need to know" the latest politically Correct way of writing? Who are these people to dare to think that God has given them the right to think and write what they think "I need to know?" I have news for them. They are wrong! They don't know what I need to know. Best solution would be if they just kept this "I need to know" stuff to themselves! Amen!
 
helenbacque said:
It's heartwarming to see the profits from my Amazon purchases put to such worthwhile uses.
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Science! The R & D on the capsule/vehicle alone has probably lead to some more knowledge on space flight and design along with the associated electronics. To me the biggest development would be the most reusable vehicle with a quick turnaround time.
 
I wonder what the physical limitations are for blasting off into space. Acceleration must be terrific and the weightlessness would then send the body to the opposite extreme. You should probably go on an empty stomach.
 
Jeff Bezos' flight is a real space flight with a vertical takeoff and speeds comparable to what it takes to orbit the earth, as apposed to what Branson did, which wasn't much different from what Chuck Yeager did back in the '50s. So what Bezos is doing takes a bit more knowhow and guts.

That said, I wish these rich guys would invest in high speed rail, which would benefit our country a lot more than space travel. I guess with space travel, you don't have to fight the government as you would doing high speed rail, plus you'd have to get access to a lot of land to build high speed rail. Elon Musk is doing some things in Florida with his hyperloop, so that's something.
 
I just happened to catch the whole event on TV. It did not last long. It reminded me of going on an amusement park ride. People will pay good money for the experience which will finance further development. It's good old capitalism at work. While Mercury, Apollo and the space shuttle were magnificent feats, they were government sponsored after which NASA kind of lost it's way except for robotic probes. Free enterprise wins the day and shows the limitations of centralized government control which is why dictatorial governments will lose out in the end.
 
Chet said:
I just happened to catch the whole event on TV. It did not last long. It reminded me of going on an amusement park ride. People will pay good money for the experience which will finance further development. It's good old capitalism at work. While Mercury, Apollo and the space shuttle were magnificent feats, they were government sponsored after which NASA kind of lost it's way except for robotic probes. Free enterprise wins the day and shows the limitations of centralized government control which is why dictatorial governments will lose out in the end.
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Without the government sponsored missions, the private companies wouldn't have been able to capitalize on the resultant technology. Out of the government sponsored space flights of the '60s and '70s came the personal computers, which led the way for Apple Computer Co, Microsoft, and the development of the Web and... my wife just interrupted me and I lost my train of thought. :ROFLMAO:

Government sponsored infrastructure makes it possible for all sorts of manufactures to operate and be profitable. Without it, capitalism would fail.
 
Bezos and the crew of Blue Origin took off from their base at Van Horn, Texas, at 9.12am EST on Tuesday, the 52nd anniversary of the moon landing, 12 minutes behind schedule. They ascended for four minutes before the New Shepard rocket booster separated from their capsule, leaving them floating in zero gravity for four minutes.

Bezos and Mark floated about, pretended to swim and tossed skittles in each other's mouths while in the air, they said afterwards. They had written 'Hi' and 'Mom' on their palms and put their hands together for their mother Jacklyn while in space.

They were joined by 18-year-old Oliver Daemen - the word's first paying customer to buy his flight - and 82-year-old Wally Funk, who passed NASA's space program in the 1960s but never made it to space because the women's flight was canceled.

They then returned to earth with parachutes controlling the pace of their descent, touching down in the Texas desert at 9.22am EST, 10 minutes and 20 seconds after liftoff.

The 10 minute journey cost $5.5billion - $550million per minute. Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon CEO earlier this year and will now split his time between Blue Origin and his environmental charity, said at a press conference after the flight: 'For every amazon customer, you guys paid for all this so thank you from the bottom of my heart.'

The comment that is likely to sting critics who say the commercial space race between Bezos and fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Richard Branson is elitist and unfair when so many others will never be able to afford the experience.

Bezos' Blue Origin crew traveled 66 miles above the surface of Earth - 13 miles higher than Virgin Galactic billionaire Branson. He tweeted his congratulations to the team afterwards.


Bezos says his goal is to move the world's major industries that are damaging the planet to space in order to preserve Earth's environment. He wants to develop space travel like aviation pioneers did with commercial airliners, and says eventually, it'll become more affordable.

On Tuesday he revealed he has already sold $100million in tickets for future flights. Blue Origin will perform another two commercial flights this year using the same capsule but different boosters.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...es-space-Blue-Origins-New-Shepard-rocket.html
 
Every person has a dream of what they would do it they won the lottery. Well the mega-rich don't need to win the lottery but they do have to pursue their dreams. So criticize all you want knowing they could careless about the critics of the world. Why? Because they have more money than the world's largest lottery.🤑
 
hollydolly said:
The comment that is likely to sting critics who say the commercial space race between Bezos and fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Richard Branson is elitist and unfair when so many others will never be able to afford the experience.
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Pfft. And I want a red Ferrari at a price I can afford. Ridiculous.

[Edited to Add] That "everything you need to know" stuff is marketing hype, also known as click-bait.
 
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Most (probably all) billionaires be like:

A man lived in a big beautiful house and had 100,000 Snickers bars stored there. One day walking down the street, he encountered a homeless person and handed them 1 (one, un, uno, eine) Snickers bar and spent the rest of the month yelling, "Look how wonderful I am; I gave that homeless person a Snickers bar! Am I charitable or what?!"
--don't remember which article I stole this from; sorry.
 

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Maybe they can design a space craft that can hold more passengers - then there will be enough room for Bill Cosby, OJ Simpson, Harvey Weinstein & Derek Chauvin.
And Jeff Bezos can be the only passenger on the return trip home.
 

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