Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos speaks to the media about the New Shepard rocket booster and Crew Capsule mockup, at the 33rd Space Symposium, in Colorado Springs, Colo., on April 5, 2017.An 18-year-old physics student whose father heads an investment management firm is set to take the place of a person who put up $28-million in an auction to take part in the inaugural space tourism flight for billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company.
His addition means that the flight is set to include the oldest person ever to go to space – 82-year-old trailblazing female aviator Wally Funk – and the youngest, Daemen, according to Blue Origin. Joining them for Blue Origin’s suborbital launch will be Bezos and his brother Mark Bezos.Daemen is working to obtain his pilot’s license and is set to attend the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands to study physics and innovation management in September, Blue Origin said.
“Flying on New Shepard will fulfill a lifelong dream for Oliver, who has been fascinated by space, the Moon, and rockets since he was four,” the company said in a news release. New Shepard is a 60-foot-tall and fully autonomous rocket-and-capsule combo that cannot be piloted from inside the spacecraft. The launch is set for a site in West Texas.
Flying Dutchman
they cannot cure the COVID-19 virus, SARS, H1N1, EBOLA, AIDS and many many more lethal viruses, microbes, baterias and micro organs, & many genetic diseases, yet they want to go to outer space!
Don't fu cking care!