

New Shepard was designed to hurtle at speeds upwards of 3 540km/hour to an altitude beyond the so-called Kármán line - 100km - set by an international aeronautics body as defining the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space.Īfter the capsule separates from the booster, the crew was due to have unbuckled for a few minutes of weightlessness.

The 57-year-old American billionaire flew on a voyage lasting about 10 minutes and 20 seconds to the edge of space, nine days after Briton Richard Branson was aboard his competing space tourism company Virgin Galactic’s successful inaugural suborbital flight from New Mexico. There were generally clear skies with a few patchy clouds on a cool morning for the launch. The spacecraft ignited its BE-3 engines for a liftoff from Blue Origin’s Launch Site One facility about 32km outside the rural town of Van Horn, flying about 107km above the planet’s surface. Looking at a recent study about the power influencers have on consumers, Forbes notes that 66% of people say their purchases are often driven by influencers and 64% say that influencers help them find new brands.Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, and three crewmates soared high above the Texas desert aboard his space venture Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle on Tuesday and returned safely to Earth, a historic suborbital flight that helps to inaugurate a new era of private commercial space tourism. Even if influencers don’t talk you into this purchase, there are others they may sway you on.

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