{"id":115645,"date":"2021-07-20T09:46:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T13:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=115645"},"modified":"2021-07-20T09:46:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T13:46:30","slug":"blue-origin-completes-first-manned-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=115645","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin completes first manned spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_115646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115646\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-115646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/0719-ctm-blueoriginastronauts-756451-640x360-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/0719-ctm-blueoriginastronauts-756451-640x360-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/0719-ctm-blueoriginastronauts-756451-640x360-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/0719-ctm-blueoriginastronauts-756451-640x360-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/0719-ctm-blueoriginastronauts-756451-640x360.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-115646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bezos and Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeff Bezos became the second billionaire this month to fund the development of a civilian space program and then fly on said rocket into space. Last week Sir Richard Branson of Virgin [Records|Galactic|Group] fame beat Bezos into space, but the crew that went with Bezos is the more interesting story here.<\/p>\n<p>As I type this, the crew of Blue Origin&#8217;s New Shepard (named for Alan Shepard, astronaut and US Navy rear admiral) are still unloading after completing their roughly ten minute flight to above the Karman Line (330k feet). By all international standards that means they&#8217;ve been to &#8220;space&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos brought along his brother (pictured to Bezos&#8217; left in the above photo) and two record setters. First is the young man in the far left side of the photo. That&#8217;s 18-year-old Dutch student and trust fund child Oliver Daemen. He is now the youngest person to have flown in space. He purchased his seat in a charity auction for $28 million.<\/p>\n<p>The lady in the photo is the legendary Wally Funk. She didn&#8217;t have to pay to fly. She&#8217;s the last remaining member of the &#8220;Mercury 13&#8221;. This oft-forgotten group of astronaut candidates were all women and selected after the more famous Mercury 7 (of which the aforementioned Shepard was a member). While these 13 women went through all the rigorous testing and evaluation to become NASA astronauts in the early 1960s, none of them ever participated in any space missions.<\/p>\n<p>Funk was the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the first female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the first female Federal Aviation Agency inspector. At age 82 she is now the oldest person to have ever flown to space. She beats former record-holder Senator John Glenn (also a Mercury 7 alum) who made his second spaceflight in 1998 at age 77.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos became the second billionaire this month to fund the development of a civilian space &hellip; <a title=\"Blue Origin completes first manned spaceflight\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=115645\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blue Origin completes first manned spaceflight<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115647,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115645\/revisions\/115647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}