Orbital rockets need to drum up enough power to hit at least 17,000 miles per hour, or what’s known as orbital velocity, essentially giving a spacecraft enough energy to continue whipping around the Earth rather than being dragged immediately back down by gravity. Jeff Bezos is going to space on first crewed flight of rocket Photographer: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg via Getty Images Matthew Staver/Bloomberg/Getty Images Bezos has been reinvesting money he made at Amazon since he started his space exploration company more than a decade ago, and has plans to launch paying tourists into space within two years.
and founder of Blue Origin LLC, smiles while speaking at the unveiling of the Blue Origin New Shepard system during the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S., on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Inc. Blue Origin’s New Shepard flights will be brief, up-and-down trips, though they will go more than 62 miles above Earth, which is widely considered to be the edge of outer space. Suborbital flights differ greatly from orbital flights of the type most of us think of when we think of spaceflight. They’ll be going up and coming right back down, and they’ll be doing it in less time – about 11 minutes – than it takes most people to get to work. That is not what the Bezos brothers and their fellow passengers will be doing. The supersonic space plane developed by his company, Virgin Galactic, roared into the sky over New Mexico early Sunday, carrying Branson and three fellow crewmembers.
Richard Branson became the first person to ride into space aboard a rocket he helped fund.
Here’s what Bezos’ flight will look like and the extent to which people are taking their lives in their hands when they go to outer space these days. Still, what Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, and the winner of an online auction, will be doing – going on the very first crewed flight of New Shepard, a fully autonomous suborbital rocket and spacecraft system designed to take ticket holders on brief joy rides to space – is not entirely without risk. (Also, being in space is Bezos’ lifelong dream.) Though the risks are not necessarily astronomical for Bezos’ jaunt to the cosmos, as his space company Blue Origin has spent the better part of the last decade running the suborbital New Shepard rocket he’ll be riding on through a series of successful test flights. Space travel is, historically, fraught with danger. Mission NS-15 lifting off from Launch Site One in West Texas on April 14, 2021.
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