Jeff Bezos reaches space on Blue Origin’s first crewed launch (cnbc.com)
- Jeff Bezos is the world’s most wealthy person, and now the first to hold that title while not on the Earth.
- His space company Blue Origin launched into spaceflight history, with Bezos riding the first crewed New Shepard rocket, alongside the oldest and youngest people to ever have flown in space.
- The launch marks Blue Origin’s entrance into the market of private spaceflight, joining Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Bezos And Crew Become World’s Newest Astronauts | ZeroHedge
Update (0927ET): Bezos and his crew have successfully touched down in Texas. Newest figures show the spacecraft reached 351,000 feet, or about 66 miles (space).

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It’s his money. I may be one of the four people on the planet to have never used Amazon, and I have little regard for Bezos’s politics, but I think this is a good thing. That Marxists like Bernie and Occasional Cortex hate it is just a bonus.
Wuhanvirus has accelerated the transfer of wealth.
Kelly tweeted this out in November of 2020.
Jeff Bezos giving $100 million to José Andrés, Van Jones after Blue Origin rocket flightBillionaire Jeff Bezos announced Tuesday he’s shelling out a massive amount of his own cash to two men: the controversial CNN contributor Van Jones and celebrity chef José Andrés, each of them getting $100 million to direct to the charities of their choice.
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But I repeat myself.
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