Blue Origin Wholesale Four Guinness World Records, Thanks To Suborbital Aviation

JAKARTA - Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin has broken four Guinness World Records records, with the first crewed space flight taking place in July.

The historic event launched Bezos and three other civilians, Mark Bezos, Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen, in a suborbital flight aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.

On that flight, Blue Origin set four new records including launching the oldest person to fly into space Wally Funk, the first brother in space at the same time Mark Bezos, the youngest person to go into space Oliver Daemen and the first suborbital spacecraft. carry paid passengers.

Quoting Space, Monday, October 11, this record was announced in the Guinness World Records on October 1 last. The four records were obtained by Blue Origin from their first space flight last July, using the New Shepard spacecraft.

New Shepard, Blue Origin's fully reusable suborbital spacecraft lifts off from the company's Launch Site One, near Van Horn, Texas, on July 20 at 9:11 a.m. EDT. The flight, which lasted a little over 10 minutes, carried four passengers via the Kármán line, the internationally recognized space limit.

Furthermore, the record was obtained by one of the crew, namely Funk, aged 82 years, breaking the record previously held by NASA astronaut John Glenn, who was 77 years old when he flew into space in October 1998 as part of NASA's STS-95 mission aboard the aircraft. the Discovery shuttle.

The Blue Origin flight also marked a personal record for Funk, who finally achieved his lifelong goal of flying into space for the first time.

The other Blue Origin flight crew also included the youngest person to ever go into space, Oliver Daemen, who was 18 at the time. Daemen was also the first passenger to pay to fly a suborbital spacecraft.

Blue Origin auctioned the fourth seat to an anonymous bidder who paid $28 million for the opportunity. However, they had a scheduling conflict and it was Daemen, who secured the tickets at auction for the New Shepard crewed flight. Daemen's ticket was paid for by his father, Joes Daemen, who is the CEO of the Dutch private equity firm Somerset Capital Partners.

Another record set with this flight was Jeff Bezos' first brother to go into space together, Mark flying in a suborbital spacecraft at the same time.

"Ever since I was five years old, I've dreamed of traveling to space. On July 20, I'll go on that trip with my brother. The greatest adventure, with my best friend," Bezos said on his pre-flight Instagram.

Furthermore, Blue Origin is targeting October 13 for its second crewed suborbital flight mission and has appointed three of the four crew members, namely Chris Boshuizen, co-founder of Earth observation company Planet Labs, and Glen de Vries, vice chair for life sciences and healthcare at software. French company Dassault Systems.

This flight will also take Star Trek actor William Shatner on this second flight, then it will break another record as Shatner is 90 years old and will set a new record for the oldest person to fly into space.