Billionaires Blast off

[thebeave]

Does anyone else find themselves secretly hoping that one of them explodes?

That’s wrong I know, but what’s the point of these trips? They aren’t advancing science. They’re just going a multi million dollar thrill ride.

Another billionaire blasts off into space and there's no deadly explosion.

Billionaire completes first private spacewalk

A billionaire and an engineer have become the first non-professional crew to perform one of the riskiest manoeuvres in space - a spacewalk.

Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis stepped out of the SpaceX spacecraft around 15 minutes apart, starting at 11:52BST, wearing specially-designed suits.

"Back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here Earth sure looks like a perfect world," Mr Isaacman said as he exited.

It was commercially funded by Mr Isaacman. Before, only astronauts with government-funded space agencies had done a spacewalk.

Odds are it will happen eventually, though.

Hopefully, it won't be Taylor Swift though, or other specially exempt billionaire.

 

[thebeave]

Does anyone else find themselves secretly hoping that one of them explodes?

That’s wrong I know, but what’s the point of these trips? They aren’t advancing science. They’re just going a multi million dollar thrill ride.

Another one launching tomorrow. This one is an all women crew. Just one billionaire on board this one.

Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez pose in their space suits as they prepare for Blue Origin flight

Ladies, get in formation.

Katy Perry, Gayle King, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez and the rest of Blue Origin’s all-female crew posed in their space suits in a photoshoot over the weekend ahead of their journey Monday.

Perry, 40, posted the pictures on Instagram and wrote, “Happy International Day of Human Space Flight Forever in awe of the Universe and it’s alignment .”

In the photos, the women all had their last names written on the front right of their blue jumpsuits. They also had “Blue Origin” emblazoned down the arm. Sánchez, 55, confirmed to the New York Times that she designed the suits with help from Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, the co-founders of the brand Monse and creative directors of Oscar de la Renta.

Former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn are also going on Bezos’ New Shepard rocket Monday.

Cross your fingers and hope they have a safe flight. Or not, if that's how you roll.

 

[SLD]

Does anyone else find themselves secretly hoping that one of them explodes?

That’s wrong I know, but what’s the point of these trips? They aren’t advancing science. They’re just going a multi million dollar thrill ride.

Another one launching tomorrow. This one is an all women crew. Just one billionaire on board this one.

Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez pose in their space suits as they prepare for Blue Origin flight

Ladies, get in formation.

Katy Perry, Gayle King, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez and the rest of Blue Origin’s all-female crew posed in their space suits in a photoshoot over the weekend ahead of their journey Monday.

Perry, 40, posted the pictures on Instagram and wrote, “Happy International Day of Human Space Flight Forever in awe of the Universe and it’s alignment .”

In the photos, the women all had their last names written on the front right of their blue jumpsuits. They also had “Blue Origin” emblazoned down the arm. Sánchez, 55, confirmed to the New York Times that she designed the suits with help from Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, the co-founders of the brand Monse and creative directors of Oscar de la Renta.

Former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and film producer Kerianne Flynn are also going on Bezos’ New Shepard rocket Monday.

Cross your fingers and hope they have a safe flight. Or not, if that's how you roll.

Katy Perry Unaware She Already Chosen To Be Jettisoned If There Emergency In Space

theonion.com