Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and three crewmates blasted off into space just after 9 AM this morning for a short sub-orbital flight that the company hopes will be a giant leap forward for the business of commercial space travel.
“I’m excited,” Bezos said Monday in an interview with Gayle King on “CBS This Morning.” “People keep asking if I’m nervous. I’m not really nervous, I’m excited. I’m curious. I want to know what we’re going to learn.”
“You’re not nervous?” King asked. “How are you not nervous?”
“We’ve been training, this vehicle is ready, this crew is ready, this team is amazing,” Bezos replied. “We just feel really good about it.”
Blue Origin’s Launch Site One was in a remote location in the West Texas desert and there are no on-site public viewing areas in the vicinity of the launch site.
The four crew members aboard New Shepard on the historic were billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, Mercury 13 aviator Wally Funk and 18-year-old physics student Oliver Daemen.
“You’ve got a very happy crew, I want you to know,” Jeff Bezos said during the landing.
Watch the flight below.
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