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In a stunning turn of events, Jeff Bezos has joined the ranks of billionaire space enthusiasts, becoming the second billionaire to embark on a self-funded space journey in a mere two weeks. Just days after stepping down from his position at the helm of Amazon, Bezos is taking a leisurely trip to space aboard a spacecraft he personally financed through his Amazon earnings. The timing is remarkable, as Richard Branson had already made headlines with his own suborbital flight on July 11. Cheers to them, I suppose?
Both Bezos and Branson are funding suborbital missions that propel passengers to altitudes of 50-60 miles above the Earth, only to return before reaching orbital heights. On his flight, Bezos is accompanied by his younger brother, Mark Bezos, aged 50; Mary Wallace Funk, an 82-year-old aviation pioneer who met NASA’s 1960s astronaut selection criteria but never flew to space; and Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands who secured his ticket through an auction, the details of which remain undisclosed (we do know the auction winner paid $28 million, and Daemen was the runner-up).
The exact costs incurred by these billionaires to develop their space travel capabilities remain unclear. However, it’s worth noting that both the U.S. and Russian space programs successfully launched humans on suborbital flights back in 1961—a time when the idea of an individual having the wealth to replicate such feats seemed unfathomable. Yet here we are in 2021.
Bezos’s vast fortune has come under scrutiny due to persistent allegations regarding low wages and poor working conditions within Amazon’s warehouses. This criticism intensified during the pandemic when workers reported rapid virus transmission in close quarters while pleading for personal protective equipment that Amazon allegedly failed to provide.
In an unexpected twist, Bezos perceives his space venture as an act of philanthropy. He believes that expanding humanity’s presence into space will allow for the cultivation of countless geniuses across the solar system. “The solar system can easily support a trillion humans,” he stated in a recent interview. “With a trillion people, we’d have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts, along with nearly limitless resources and solar energy. That’s the future I envision for my great-grandchildren’s great-grandchildren.”
Naturally, opinions on social media were mixed.
After a brief 15-minute journey, Bezos and his crew returned safely to Earth.
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