Jeff Bezos' girlfriend will lift the ship into space (5 photos + 1 video)

Rjvgfybz Blue Origin plans to send a crew into space soon, consisting only of women. Jeff's girlfriend will be the captain of the ship Bezos Lauren Sanchez. Helicopter pilot Lauren Sanchez admits that this the thought makes her nervous.







Next year, billionaire Jeff Bezos' private space firm Blue Origin will send the first-ever crew into space, consisting of exclusively from women. Lauren Sanchez, Bezos' girlfriend, will lead the mission which will take place in early 2024. Personalities of five of her friends crew will not be disclosed until just before launch, the date of which has not yet been officially confirmed.



Bezos, founder and former CEO of Amazon, 20 July 2021 he himself took part in the first manned mission Blue origin.



The Blue Origin plan actually duplicates the plans of NASA, which will send the first female astronauts to the Moon in 2025 as part of their program Artemis.

According to Sanchez, she is "very excited" and "a little nervous” about space travel. As for the participants space flight, according to her, “it will be women who change the world for the better, have influence and have something to say.” Bezos himself, who divorced his wife in 2019 after starting his romance with Sanchez, she said, is "very excited" about the mission and "excited" what they have to do .. "As much as he wanted to fly this flight, I have to refuse him,” Sanchez said. “He will cheer us on from the outside.”

Sanchez is known in the US as a media personality and news anchor. however, she is also a licensed helicopter pilot. She is one of the founders of Black Ops Aviation, a women's manufacturing company aerial photography. Bezos is also in the process of getting his own pilot's licenses.

Although Sanchez has no experience as an astronaut, according to Bezgos, this will not be a problem - on the contrary, because the goal of Blue Origin is to send to space of ordinary civilians. Bezos wants to pioneer the era commercial space travel, although currently customers Blue Origin has to pay several million for this experience dollars. According to the commercial offer on the company's website, commercial astronauts can complete full flight training for as little as two days.



According to the commercial flight plan, after takeoff, travelers from speed of sound cross the boundary between the earth's atmosphere and space space. Then they hover in zero gravity for several minutes and "observe stunning views" of the Earth from a height before the apparatus gently descend by parachute.

Blue Origin currently has two launch vehicles, including including the New Shepard, named after the first American in space, Alan Shepard. The self-contained reusable vehicle consists of a capsule for the crew and launch vehicle powered by a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, which is more environmentally friendly than conventional rocket fuel.

Blue Origin's latest manned space flight is the sixth account - was successfully held in August last year. Mission sent to space of the first citizens of Egypt and Portugal - engineer Saru Sabry and businessman Mario Ferreiro. The crew also included Kobe Cotton, one of the five co-founders of YouTube sports comedy channel Dude Perfect, which has over 58 million subscribers.

A spokesperson for Blue Origin confirmed that all six members flights were commercial passengers, although Sabri's seat was sponsored non-profit organization Space for Humanity.

Blue Origin did not disclose ticket prices, but it is known that bidder paid $28 million for a seat on the first flight back in 2021. Past flights have included celebrity guests who flew for free. One of them was Star Trek actor William Shatner. However, the following month, New Shepard suffered its first unsuccessful launch shortly after takeoff from Texas. However, the company managed with honor deal with failure. Capsule New Shepard quickly launched rescue engine, which in just a few seconds created the desired thrust, and then burned out, which allowed the ship to deploy parachutes and return to Earth. Observers were encouraged by the fact that if there were people on board, they most likely would have survived.

Blue Origin is also working on a lunar lander called Blue Moonwhich is scheduled to launch in 2024. "Blue Moon is a flexible lander capable of delivering the surface of the Moon a wide range of small, medium and large cargoes, — the company said in a statement.