Lagatar Desk: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos returned on Tuesday after traveling to space. Bezos has created a new history. With this, Bezos became the second billionaire to travel in space. This journey was completed in about 11 minutes. Jeff Bezos was accompanied by 3 more passengers. One of them includes his brother Mark, 82-year-old Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Damon.
The team enjoyed zero gravity for four minutes
Four passengers, including Jeff Bezos, went from the space company Blue Origin’s rocket New Shepherd. It was launched on July 20 at 6.45 pm from Blue Origin Launch Site One in West Texas. Bezos and his companions went to space 105 km above the Earth and enjoyed zero gravity for four minutes.
The whole team returned and celebrated
After that the whole team returned safely at 6.52 pm. Jeff Bezos hugged Wally Funk after leaving the capsule. After this Jeff said that this was the best day of my life. At 7.08 pm, all the passengers came out of the capsule and the astronauts were congratulated by their families. The entire team celebrated by opening a bottle of champagne.
Preparations were being made for landing from 5 o’clock
At 5 p.m. Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, Wally Funk and Oliver Damon arrived at the launch tower and made preparations for the launch. Helicopters were flying around the launch pad at 5:40 pm. So that monitoring can be done according to security. Apart from this, scientists are monitoring all around the rocket to see if everything is correct or not. At 5.48, the astronauts went to the rocket from the launch tower.
The capsule went into space at three times the speed of the rocket
At 6 o’clock, all the astronauts with Bezos arrived in the New Shepherd capsule. In 6.20 minutes the four astronauts sat in the New Shepherd capsule and the hatch was closed. is. Then the capsule went into space at three times the speed of the rocket.
Apollo 11 also landed on the moon on the same day
Let us tell you that on this day, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin reached the moon exactly 52 years ago in 1969 through the Apollo 11 spaceship. On July 20, 52 years of the landing of Apollo 11 were completed. That’s why Jeff Bezos chose this date.
Wally Funk becomes oldest female astronaut
In this trip, the youngest and oldest astronaut went on space tourism. This was the first such flight in the history of space flight, in which such a new experiment was done. The oldest woman in this team was also 82-year-old Wally Funk. She has become the oldest astronaut.
Branson went to space a week ago
A week before this, on July 11, British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Space Ship Unity spaceplane flight was successful. They went for 85 km. The special thing is that Sirisha of Indian origin went to Bandla with Branson. At the same time, 30-year-old Sanjal Gawande of Kalyan, Maharashtra was also included in the team of engineers who made Bezos’s New Shepard rocket.
