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New Shepard lifts off from Launch Site One in West Texas with four humans on board. (July 20, 2021)
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The award for “Best Small Talk on a Flight to Space” goes to Oliver Daemen, the 18-year-old from the Netherlands who was part of Blue Origin’s inaugural crewed flight to space earlier this week. On the roughly 10-minute flight, Daemon told Amazon founder Jeff Bezos what probably sounded like blasphemy to his billionaire ears: He had never bought anything on Amazon.
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In an interview with Reuters on Friday, Daemen recounted his first flight to space, from when he got the call asking him if he was interested to the conversations he had with his crewmates, which included Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, and 82-year-old pilot Wally Funk.Daemen, whose father is the CEO of a private equity firm in the Netherlands, became the youngest person to ever fly to space, while Funk became the oldest.
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Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin s first crewed spaceflight is a success and it s prompted an announcement of more passenger flights this year. Two more spaceflights are planned for 2021. Both flights will accommodate paying passengers.
According to Blue Origins Director for Astronaut and Orbital Sales Ariane Cornell as cited in a report by Space, Sales are open, everybody!
The next crewed flight could even happen as early as September, per Blue Origin CEO Robert Smith.
Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin Plans to Launch Two More Spaceflights
(Photo : Screenshot taken from Blue Origin s Twitter)
Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin have yet to announce prices for seats or any other details about the future spaceflights. Cornell has revealed, however, that she has been in talks with bidders who tried to win a seat in Blue Origin s maiden flight.