Jeff Bezos, the world's number one billionaire and founder of Amazon, successfully flew into space on Tuesday.
Along with three other passengers, Bezos completed a 10-minute space journey in a New Shepherd rocket built by his own company, Blue Origin
Bezos was joined on the trip by his brother Mark Bezos, an 82-year-old former pilot and former member of the US space program Wally Funk, and an 18-year-old student, Oliver Dyman. The four returned to Earth by parachute 10 minutes and 10 seconds after taking off.
After successfully completing his spaceflight and returning to Earth, Bezos said it was his best day as an astronaut.
The astronaut shouted happily
All of them boarded the New Shepherd spacecraft and set off from the Van Horn Center in Texas. Blue Origin has built a new Shepherd rocket with the aim of promoting space tourism. The spacecraft's capsule has large windows that allow passengers to observe the beauty of the earth from space.
The rocket was launched at around 7.45 pm Nepali time on Tuesday. Just 2 minutes after takeoff, the capsule detached from the rocket and reached the surface of space one hundred kilometers above. Once there, all the astronauts aboard the capsule wow! That was heard. Everyone shouted for joy.
Wally Funk said - Oh look at the world.
Before embarking on space travel, she said that she would exercise with her head up when she had zero weight in space.
Experience zero gravity for four minutes
All four passengers experienced weightlessness for about 4 minutes. He unbuckled his seatbelt and even felt like floating in the air. They also enjoyed a panoramic view of the earth from afar.
Funk, who went on this spaceflight with Bezos, was part of NASA's Mercury 13 group of women in the 1960s who completed the same testing and selection process as the male astronauts. But NASA never gave him a chance to go into space.
The space race of billionaires
This New Shepherd spaceflight is the latest example of a billionaire's space race.
Last week, billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson made a successful spaceflight. Branson set the record by traveling in space via his company's Virgin Galactic rocket ship.
In an interview last week, Branson said there was no need for him to beat Jeff Bezos. He also advised Bezos as a friend. He said - from space only you see the view outside. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
In the future, the public will have to pay up to two and a half million dollars for space travel from the Virgin Galactic rocket ship. The price of New Shepherd's business ticket has not been made public yet.
Bezos, the world's richest man, founded Blue Origin in 2000. Just last month, he announced his space flight.
His brother, Mark Bezos, 53, who went on space travel with Jeff Bezos, is the founder of an advertising agency and senior vice president at Robin Hood, a New York-based charity.
Oliver Wyman, 18, is the son of Joyce Dyman, CEO of Somerset Capital. He is also a student of physics.
