Flying into Space, Jeff Bezos: An immersive experience

Jeff Bezos finally realized his childhood dream of flying into outer space. Returning from space, Bezos said the trip was something extraordinary and almost indescribable in words.

In an interview with CNN after landing, the Amazon founder said seeing the Earth from the New Shepard capsule was an immersive experience because he realized how fragile the Earth’s atmosphere is.

"The most different thing for me is the view of the Earth. That was the most shocking thing for me," Bezos said, as quoted by CNN on Wednesday (21/7/2021).

"You go there, and it's very small ... It's something small, and fragile and ... emphasizes things that we know theoretically, that we have to be careful with the Earth's atmosphere."

Bezos then proposed something very ambitious to keep the Earth clean and safe for its inhabitants, namely by moving heavy industries and industries that pollute the environment into space.

The richest people in the world say Blue Origin flights are expected to be the foundation for future generations to realize this idea. He is also aware that realizing this dream can take decades.

“So we can keep a planet like this gem, instead of destroying it, which unfortunately maybe we will do,” Bezos explained.

On the first manned flight of Blue Origin, Bezos and three other crew members also spent about three minutes hovering at zero gravity. On this flight, Bezos was accompanied by his brother Mark, flight pioneer Wally Funk, and physics student Oliver Daemen.

Bezos said that he and the other passengers had fun throwing candy in the air and catching it with their mouths. The 57 -year -old admits that floating in zero gravity feels different than what he imagined.

"Zero-G is of course different than I thought. But moving in such a situation feels natural, not as I expected," he concluded.

As is known, Bezos and three crews of the First Human Flight mission flew with a New Shepard rocket on Tuesday (20/7) morning Texas time. They flew to an altitude of 100 km and the duration of this flight lasted for 11 minutes from takeoff to landing.