Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is a founder of Blue Origin and amazon. That professional background preceded Bezos' participation in Blue Origin's human-spaceflight program.
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Flights
1
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In space
1 suborbital flight
Bio
NS-16 launched on July 20, 2021 aboard New Shepard, with Bezos serving as Astronaut.
New Shepard launches vertically from West Texas, carries its autonomous crew above the atmosphere, and returns the capsule under parachutes while the lands separately under power. Jeff Bezos therefore has 1 completed spaceflight; backup, training, canceled, and future assignments are excluded from that total. The mission connected Bezos' professional experience with direct work aboard a crewed spacecraft and a completed flight assignment. The flight converted that professional background into direct experience of launch, weightlessness, Earth viewing, , and recovery.