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The four passengers formed the breathing payload of the first launch of a privately funded spacecraft with people onboard. “Best day ever!” Jeff Bezos cried while in flight, close to the flight’s 107-kilometer apogee. The crew aboard New Shepard, Blue Origin’s reusable rocket-company founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old Mercury 17 astronaut candidate Wally Funk, and 18-year-old paying customer Oliver Daemen-made the 11-minute flight to and from the edge of space. We will continue to update this story with new information and dispatches from Launch Site One throughout the day.Ī rocket propellant and champagne flowed freely in West Texas today as Blue Origin celebrated its historic first flight with passengers, vaulting four people-including the world’s richest man-into suborbital space. While building space infrastructure will take decades, Bezos said, “This is how it starts.Popular Mechanics contributing writer Joe Pappalardo is in Van Horn, Texas today to watch Jeff Bezos and three other passengers ride in the first human spaceflight for Blue Origin. He also estimated that Blue Origin has approached some $100 million in private ticket sales already. “When you go to space and see how fragile it is, you want to take care of it even more, and that's what this is about,” Bezos said. The billionaire said Earth is “the only good planet” in our solar system, and “we’ve sent robotic probes to all of them.” “We're going to build a road to space so that our kids and their kids can build the future, and we need to do that, we need to do that to solve the problems here on Earth,” Bezos added.

“Big things start small, but you can tell when you're onto something, and this is important.” “What we're doing is the first step of something big, and I know what that feels like, I did it three decades ago, nearly three decades ago, with Amazon,” Bezos said. Jul 20, 12:55 PM EDT Bezos discusses ambitious plans for Blue Origin’s future Link Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Email this articleīezos revealed what the astronauts spoke about as they were in the capsule ahead of the launch, saying he told his crew mates that the flight is not just about “adventure” but also the start of “something big.”