Blog Jeff Bezos Completes Space Flight with Blue Origin

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos successfully flew Tuesday to the edge of space in the first crewed mission from his rocket company Blue Origin.

Blue Origin is expected to be a serious competitor for Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX.

“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 in a press conference. “Big things start small, but you can tell when you’re onto something, and this is important.”

Bezos called it “the best day ever.”

Bezos was joined on the mission by his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands an 82-year-old Wally Funk, a female NASA pilot who never had the opportunity to fly to Space.

Check out the mission broadcast below. 

 

[Grendal]

Blue Origin is expected to be a serious competitor for Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX.

Not really. BO is way behind SpaceX on everything.

 

[Dolemite]

Just wait and see…

 

[CyberGus]

Bezos should have taken a package with him. "Amazon: Now delivering to space"

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

Bezos should have taken a package with him. "Amazon: Now delivering to space"

That would have been too easy. "Here are some of the things we've actually delivered to space."

 

[CyberGus]

That would have been too easy. "Here are some of the things we've actually delivered to space."

Prime Customers only.

 

[GoBlue88]

Sorry for being a 51-year-old middle-school boy and maybe deep down we all are: I just can't help but giggle at the shape of that rocket.

 

[Nikxice]

Sorry for being a 51-year-old middle-school boy and maybe deep down we all are: I just can't help but giggle at the shape of that rocket.

As Elon has said, Jeff isn't much of an engineer. In this case, Bezos simply designed the rocket off an image on his phone.

 

[cwerdna]

As I posted in another thread:

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[Artofangie]

Bezos should have taken a package with him. "Amazon: Now delivering to space"

More like I lost your package and it actually went to space I stead

 

[scaesare]

*chuckle*

 

[cwerdna]

‘SNL’ Goofs on Billionaire Space Race in ‘Star Trek: Ego Quest’ Sketch totally skewers Bezos and Amazon. Don't want to say much else otherwise it'd spoil two other points in the sketch.