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Retail billionaire and founder of Kent, Washington-based aerospace launch services provider Blue Origin Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark Bezos described their experience onboard Blue Origin’s maiden crewed New Shepard mission which took to the skies earlier today in a post-landing interview given to MSNBC. The duo, who were joined by veteran aviator and pilot trainer Wally Funk and eighteen-year-old Oliver Damien during their maiden voyage beyond the Karman line on the New Shepard, kicking off operational crewed flights for Blue Origin’s rocket and capsule, which intend to take researchers and others beyond the atmospheric space boundary as part of a growing space economy.
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The two Bezos spoke to MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle after returning to Earth, with the retail billionaire describing his experience on the vehicle as surreal. Jeff Bezos’ statements about his experience watching the planet from space reflected those made by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts, as he commented on the beauty of the planet and stressed that all heavy industry polluting the planet needs to be put into space.
Describing the mission, the Blue Origin founder stated:
The brothers also recorded a greeting for their mother during their flight, and Mark Bezos described the opportunity as:
Jeff: One of us was upside down in zero-G. Hopefully we got it right.
Mark: We don’t know if it came out. We’ll have to go again if it didn’t come out right.
Jeff: It could be Hi Wow if we got it wrong.
Mark: Or Wow Hi.
According to him,
