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On July 11, it’s time to turn that dream into a reality aboard the next he said via Twitter. My mum taught me to never give up and to reach for the stars. “I truly believe that space belongs to all of us,” he said. He is being replaced by Andy Jassy, the head of its successful cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, who formally takes over as CEO on Monday.īezos will be on the debut flight of a Blue Origin rocket with his brother, Funk and a yet-to-be-named passenger who paid for a seat on the flight at a $28m charity auction last month.īranson said he was honoured to be able to help “ensure his business delivers a unique customer experience”. The 82-year-old, who was denied the chance to be an astronaut in the 1960s due to her gender, will be the oldest person ever to travel to space.īezos, who is stepping down as chief executive of Amazon on 5 July, is to blast off from west Texas on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.Īmazon has not commented on speculation that its 57-year-old founder may have been asked to step back from his chief executive role to become executive chairman of the company, which has a market value of $1.7tn, before heading to space. Jamie Groh is a space reporter for Florida Today.The news came just hours after Bezos’s Blue Origin said the Amazon founder would be accompanied into space on 20 July by Wally Funk, a female aerospace pioneer. The rocket should have launched nearly two weeks ago, but had been grounded until Monday by bad weather. I see this as a tiny blip that Blue Origin will get over, the whole suborbital commercial space industry will get over."Īlthough the New Shepard system has tested its crew escape system a number of times prior to human spaceflight, including during a planned scenario exactly like Monday's occurrence, this is the first time it has ever been used during a mission. "I don't think most space tourists are going to be paying much attention to this," she said. "The ones who are already ticket holders are probably already well versed in the dangers. It could also serve as a demonstration for the importance of safety during spaceflight, said Laura Forczyk, owner of the consulting firm Astralytical. But the in-flight failure could have implications for the future of the growing industry, even though Monday's mission did not feature crewmembers​​​​​​. īlue Origin has set its sights on spaceflight tourism, with even Bezos himself taking a trip to space in the New Shepard rocket. "This wasn't planned and we don't have any details yet," said Erika Wagner, Blue Origin's web host. 'HOMETOWN BOY': Astronaut! Brevard's Steve Young flies into space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket

But during Monday's mission, the capsule instead ejected itself away from the booster. The failure happened just as the booster experienced Max Q, a period in spaceflight when rockets experience the highest amount of aerodynamic stress during ascent.ĭuring this period of flight, the booster would throttle back its engine to endure the stress before throttling back up to reach maximum height before a planned separation.