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Jeff Bezos Plans to Travel to Space on Blue Origin Flight Next Month
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoOnly 100 km up, no orbit. Kind of neat and I wouldn't turn down a chance to do it, but travel to space to me means something quite different than this.
- elliekelly 5y agoReading your comment prompted me to search 'where does "space" begin' and I learned of the Kármán Line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kármán_line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kármán_line
- mongol 5y agoSounds appropriate for New Shepard
- mdaniel 5y agoHeh, I wonder if his CEO insurance policy(ies?) forbid activities such as this, but Chairman has no such restrictions
- mongol 5y agoNot sure about insurance but I think it is not a coincidence that he does this after stepping down as CEO
- xianwen 5y agoI don't understand why a person would risk their life. Why not first establish a series of successful flights without humans first, and then with humans?
- aerospace_guy 5y agoNew Shepard has flown 14 times successfully without any failures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Shepard#Full_flight_list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Shepard#Full_flight_list
- zolland 5y agoWon't find me getting into any dangerous vehicles that have only been tested 14 times!
- King-Aaron 5y ago* laughs in home made racecar *
- w0de0 5y agoIf a horrible accident occurs, will the rate of descent of the wreckage exceed the rate of descent of Amazon’s stock price?
- BelenusMordred 5y agoHe's not CEO, I don't see what it will change other than kneejerk reactions and news-bot trading.
- cyanydeez 5y agoinfact, other than antidemocratic messagin increasing, very little will change about amazons profit taking culture.
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