Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and his three crewmates have successfully returned to the Earth after historic spaceflight on Monday.
Bezos was accompanied by his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old pioneer of the space race Wally Funk and 18-year-old student Oliver Daemen of the Netherlands.
Wally Funk, 82-year-old is now the oldest person ever to fly to space after she took flight on Tuesday alongside Jeff Bezos and two other passengers on a rocket built by Blue Origin.
The flight was on the maiden flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle.
The launch took place from Bezos’ private launch site near Van Horn, Texas, and the flight lasted about 10 minutes.
The crew capsule reached a maximum altitude of 351,210 feet (or 107 kilometers), with the rocket reaching a top speed of 2,233 mph during the launch. The total mission time from launch to capsule landing was 10 minutes 10 seconds.
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson congratulated Blue Origin, founder Jeff Bezos and the New Shepard crew after the successful spaceflight.
“Well done,” Branson tweeted. “Impressive! Very best to all the crew from me and all the team at @virgingalactic”
Branson beat Bezos to space by nine days after flying on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spacecraft earlier in July.
Blue Origin has hosted a post flight press conference today with New Shepard’s first astronaut crew.
A global media for the latest news, entertainment, music fashion, and more.
