

“I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, because you guys paid for all of this,” Bezos told reporters afterward. Pioneering woman aviator Wally Funk here, 82, and recent high school graduate Oliver Daemen here, 18, became the oldest and youngest people to reach space. The fully autonomous 60-foot-tall (18.3-meters-tall) gleaming white spacecraft, with a feather design on its side, ignited its BE-3 engine for a vertical liftoff from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One facility about 20 miles (32 km) outside the rural town of Van Horn under mostly clear skies.īezos, founder of ecommerce company Inc, and his brother Mark Bezos, a private equity executive, were joined by two others.
