Blue Origin launch live updates: What to know about Jeff Bezos' trip to space and how to watch

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Jeff Bezos joked with reporters that he did not have his “last meal” before taking off on his space travel company’s first flight with people on board. “I don’t think we should put it that way. Let’s talk about it in a different way.”

Liftoff of the inaugural Blue Origin flight is scheduled for 9 a.m. ET from a rural complex just north of Van Horn, Texas. In total, the flight will be 11 minutes, with approximately three minutes spent above the so-called Karman line that is defined by some as the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space. After re-entry, the astronauts are set to descend back to Earth in their capsule with a parachute-landing in the west Texas desert.

There is no pilot aboard the fully-autonomous capsule. While Blue Origin's New Shepard has flown 15 test flights, Tuesday's will be the first with humans on board.The definition of"space" has emerged as a heated debate point in the new space race, as Sir Richard Branson took heat for not passing the Karman line during his Virgin Galactic spaceflight earlier this month.

Still, the billionaire daredevils using themselves as guinea pigs for their private space tourism firms have not had the same support astronauts garnered during the original U.S.-Soviet space race. Animosity was exacerbated by reports that Bezos and Musk have

 

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Remember when, for whatever reason, he visited MBS in Saudi Arabia, they hacked his phone and we’re going to blackmail him for… and he just released the affair story and pics himself? Billionaires are villains. He’s not a “good” man. We shouldn’t be celebrating him.

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