THE RACE TO SPACE
Jul 30, 2021
3 minutes
COMPILED BY DENNIS CAVERNELIS
THE best day ever. That’s how the richest man on Earth describes his journey to the edge of space – although that odyssey took up only a fraction of his day.
In fact, it took just 11 minutes from blast off to touch down but for Jeff Bezos and the three other people aboard the New Shepard rocket, it was as close to heaven as you can get.
“It was unbelievably good,” an ecstatic Jeff (57) says. “We’re a very happy crew.”
That crew
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