Jeff Bezos is ready to fly into space with the New Origin Shepard Blue rocket in a matter of hours. Ahead of his maiden flight into space, Bezos said he was not nervous.
Bezos will fly with three others in Blue Origin’s first manned flight into sub-orbit. The 11 -minute ride will fly from the Blue Origin facility in Van Horn, Texas today at 8 a.m. local time.
"People keep asking me if I'm nervous. I'm not nervous, I'm excited. I'm curious. I want to know what we're going to learn," Bezos said in an interview with CBS This Morning, as quoted by Reuters on Tuesday ( 20/7). / 2021).
"We're training. The vehicles are ready. The crew is ready. The team is amazing. We feel very good," he continued.
Amazon’s founder will be joined by his brother Mark, 82 -year -old aviation pioneer Wally Funk and 18 -year -old physics student Oliver Daemen. If successful, the flight will break records after taking the youngest and oldest people into space.
Daemen was the first Blue Origin customer to have purchased a ticket to go into space. His father is a senior at investment management firm Somerset Capital Partners.
Bezos also praised Funk for having waited 60 years to fly into space. In the 1960s, Funk had taken a test just as difficult as NASA’s astronaut test for the space program. Unfortunately Funk was not selected to be an astronaut because of his gender.
"When Wally was part of Merxcury 13, all the tests he did, he beat all the men. And we can confirm at age 82, he can still beat all those men," the world's richest man said in an interview with NBC Today.
"We've been training with Wally. He can run faster than all of us," he continued.
Bezos will fly nine days after Richard Branson goes into space with the Virgin Galactic rocket. Considered competing to be the first millionaire to fly into space, Bezos admits there is no competition between the two.
"There was one person who was the first person in space. His name was Yuri Gagarin. And that was a long time ago," Bezos said on the NBC Today program, referring to the Soviet cosmonaut that flew into space in 1961.
"I think I'm going to be number 570 or something. That's where we're going to be on this list. So this isn't competition. It's about building an entrance into outer space so that future generations can do incredible things in space."
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