(Update, the spacecraft was launched at 16:12 Israeli time, its launcher successfully landed for reuse and the spacecraft itself landed at 16:23) A young pilot, an 82-year-old woman who was almost an astronaut when NASA decided not to recruit women for Mercury missions, entrepreneur Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark among the flying today. News updated
16:23 The capsule with the passengers landed successfully not far from the launch site in Texas.
16:20 The launcher that launched it successfully landed on its "feet"
16:17 The spacecraft activated a parachute to slow the descent.
16:12 The spaceship with the brothers Jeff and Mark Bezos, and two space tourists - an 18-year-old Dutchman who was almost an astronaut, and managed to fly at the age of 82 on their way to space.
Advance notice:
Today the launch of Jeff Bezos and space tourists for a suborbital flight in this spacecraft is expected about a week after a similar flight made by another billionaire - Richard Branson. One of the debates was whether Branson's spacecraft actually reached space, because the maximum flight height was 85 km while the threshold of space is defined in most of the world as 100 km.
Another difference is that, unlike Virgin Galactic's space plane, in Bezos's case it is a real space capsule, which takes off in a normal vertical launch and lands with the help of parachutes.
A 28-year-old space tourist and an 82-year-old female tourist will join Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark
Last week, Blue Origin revealed the identity of the youngest passenger, who will fly in place and at the expense of the space tourist who won the tender after paying $23 million and giving up the flight in the meantime.
The passenger's name is Oliver Diman, who has been out of space since he was four years old. He will finish his high school studies in 2020, and since then he managed to get a pilot's license. From this September he will study at Utrecht University in the Netherlands physics and managed innovation.
He will join Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos and Wally Funk aboard Blue Origin's first commercial manned flight today, July 20. Along with him, 82-year-old Wally Funk, chosen by Bezos, will also fly, and thus two records will be broken - the youngest astronaut and the oldest astronauts who have flown into space.
Funk, 82, is one of a dozen women dubbed the Mercury 13 as a paraphrase of NASA's original group of astronauts, Mercury 7. Funk and the others were accomplished aviators who, like their male counterparts, dreamed of flying even higher, into space. But they were never included in NASA's vision for space flight and never became astronauts—until now.
"Wally Funk never gave up on her dream of space flight," said Margaret Wittkamp, curator of the Smithsonian's National Department of Air and Space History, who wrote a book about the women who tried to enter the astronaut program of the Smithsonian. NASA,to Space.com. "There's a nice bit of poetic justice in her inclusion on this flight."
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