Jeff Bezos Has Picked an Unusual Space Crew
No group like this one has ever gone to space before.
by Marina Koren
Jul 15, 2021
3 minutes
Jeff Bezos has finalized the manifest for his company’s first passenger flight to space, and it’s a rather unusual bunch.
There’s Bezos himself, the richest person in the world, who sold some of his Amazon stock to fund his space venture, Blue Origin. His brother, Mark, with whom he wanted to share the experience. Wally Funk, an 82-year-old American pilot who in the early 1960s passed the same training tests designed for male astronauts, but was rejected by NASA. And Oliver
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