Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man for 10 minutes and 10 seconds on Tuesday, was no longer the richest man on earth as joined the crew on his space flight company, Blue Origin, on its first-ever human space flight.
Bezos was joined by his brother, Mark Bezos, as well as 82-year-old Wally Funk and 18-year-old Physics student Oliver Daemen. Blue Origin now holds the record of flying the oldest and youngest persons ever to space.
Oliver Daemen was the last crew member to get aboard for this historic space flight on Tuesday. Daemen whose spot was part of a $28 million public auction bid but later reversed as the anonymous bidder was unable to meet the July 20 launch date.
“Best day ever!” Bezos exclaimed after touchdown. “My expectations were high and they were dramatically exceeded.”
In an article cited by the Washington Post, Bezos had dreams of going to space even as a school kid. In an interview with Miami Herald, he told the Newspaper how he plans to build “space hotels, Amusement Parks and colonies for 2 or 3 million [people] to orbit it”.
On Tuesday after touchdown, he iterated his childhood vision for space again. He plans to use his company Blue Origin to build “a future where millions of people are living and working in space to benefit Earth.”
“This is a tiny little step of what Blue Origin is going to do. What we’re really trying to do is build reusable space vehicles. It’s the only way to build a road to space, and we need to build a road to space so that our children can build the future,” he told CNBC News.
This is just the beginning of commercial spaceflights as stated by Bezos. Withmore than $420 billion space economy. Space tourism will soon be the driving force in the tourism sector.
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