with him on this first fully autonomous flight, three other civilians. his brother, mark, 18 year old dutch student oliver daemen, and 82 year old trailblazing aviator wally funk. one of mercury 13, a group of women who went through astral testing and training beforejeff bezos was born but never made it to space until now. five, four, three, two, one.. as you can hear, the reusable rocket carrying its first passengers and paying customer is on its way to space. blast off for the new shepard and lift off for space tourism. look out the window. holy, good god. the capsule separated from the booster at 250,000 feet and continued to the edge of space. look at this.
with literally no doors to lock, new threats emerge. ido i do have an axe beside my bed. i close my door, if somebody comes and wants to rape me, i don t think there s much to take away. let me sleep, tomorrow is a new day, hopefully we will wake up and work again. anna halligan, bbc news, ahrweiler. jeff bezos, the billionaire founder of amazon, has been to space and back, in the first crewed flight, of his rocket ship, new shepard. 0n the flight was the oldest person who has been to space 82 year old wally funk, and the youngest, 18 year old 0liver daemen. 0ur correspondent sophie long reports from texas. boarding his 60 foot suborbital rocket.
driven career woman and then that will be that, but over time, as things have turned out in the last ten years or so, i feel like i ve gone backwards. the government does acknowledge that while talent is evenly distributed across the uk, opportunity isn t and has committed to make levelling up one of its top priorities. yes, that s right, thank you. but in the meantime, adam has left his home town to realise his acting dreams. katie wray, bbc news. jeff bezos, the billionaire founder of amazon, has been to space and back in the first crewed flight of his rocket ship, new shepard. on the flight were the oldest person who has been to space 82 year old wally funk, and the youngest, 18 year old oliver daemen. our correspondent sophie long reports from texas. boarding his 60 foot suborbital rocket. he was not nervous, he said, just excited. this was notjust about realising a lifelong dream,
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