![]() ![]() Tuesday's crew includes Bezos, along with his brother Mark, female aviation pioneer Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old Dutchman and last-minute fill-in for the winner of a $28 million (€23.8 million) charity auction.įunk, who is 82, and Daemen became the oldest and youngest people to reach space. Bezos' Blue Origin is due to fly higher than Branson, with a distance of 62 miles compared to 53 miles for Virgin Galactic. Just over a week ago, Branson launched his first successful suborbital flight from New Mexico through his competing space tourism company Virgin Galactic. Their capsule landed in the Texan desert, after coming back down to Earth with the help of giant parachutes. The flight also coincided with the 52nd anniversary of the first Moon landing. ![]() The crew gave each other high-fives and hugged friends and family.īezos went on a 11-minute trip to the edge of space, just beyond the Earth's limits, with a crew of four from a desert site in West Texas. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network."A very happy group of people in this capsule," Bezos said after touching down. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account Humans last explored the lunar surface during the final Apollo mission, Apollo 17, in 1972. NASA expects to land the first woman and the next man on moon’s south pole in 2024 through its Artemis program. “Without competition, NASA’s short-term and long-term lunar ambitions will be delayed, will ultimately cost more, and won’t serve the national interest.” “Without competition, a short time into the contract, NASA will find itself with limited options as it attempts to negotiate missed deadlines, design changes, and cost overruns,” he wrote. “īezos repeatedly emphasized the need for NASA to promote healthy competition as the agency works toward its return to the moon, suggesting that the government would regret not doing so. This offer provides time for government appropriation actions to catch up. “This offer is not a deferral, but is an outright and permanent waiver of those payments. “Blue Origin will bridge the HLS budgetary funding shortfall by waiving all payments in the current and next two government fiscal years up to $2 billion to get the program back on track right now,” he wrote. Now Bezos - fresh from his space flight last week - wants to make sure money does not come in the way. But in April, NASA made the surprise announcement that it would move forward with SpaceX as the sole contractor for the project, citing costs as a primary reason.īlue Origin openly pushed back against the decision. The agency originally intended to have at least two private-sector companies compete to build the spacecraft that will ferry astronauts to the lunar surface for the Artemis moon landing missions - a project called the Human Landing System (HLS). The billionaires' space race is only just beginning ![]()
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