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Jeff Bezos is soon scheduled to blast off to the edge of space at 9am EST on July 20, 2021. Or year 1, the first year in our new system of time measurement set once Jesus Christ was born and now Jeff Bezos’s journey into space, which will effectively spend On every memory of anyone who orbits the moon reluctantly because they had to and hated it.

Now Bezos will take a glancing at this doomed rock that he covered with logistic vehicles and fulfillment centers, and will forever present himself as an “astronaut.” And we can see footage of the outer part of the missile carrying a set of eyeballs worth $206 billion.

How do I watch Jeff Bezos go to Space Live?

We can all watch the bounty live on CBS News’ Blue Origin or YouTube YouTube (or here, embedded below) with pre-launch coverage starting at 7:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, July 20. It is due to be the West Texas desert outside of El Paso at around 9 a.m. EDT.

OK, but – does Jeff Bezos really go to “space”?

It depends on whether you think you can claim that you made a “journey” from New York to New Jersey by crossing the George Washington Bridge and then turning around immediately without getting out of the car. But, yes.

The capsule will cross the Karman Line, 62 miles above sea level, the internationally recognized (but disputed) boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space. He’ll be there for maybe a minute, at which point Bezos can credibly exclaim, “I’m an astronaut!” At most, he’ll be able to untie his seat belt for about three minutes to perform the back somersault he’s been dreaming of for 57 years.

The journey is expected to take 10 minutes. The longest time a person has endured in the hateful, lifeless void is 437 days.

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Screenshot: Blue Origin / Gizmodo

Getting to that point costs Bezos at least $4 billion in excess, according to Bezos’ 2018 note to Business Insider that he’s been spending about $1 billion annually to fund Blue Origin and plans to “do it for a long time.”

Who joins Bezos in his attempt to escape from Earth?

Blue Origin reports that after landing in the West Texas desert, it will broadcast a live press conference with “astronauts,” which will include Bezos. Also on board: the humanized company of his brother Mark; 82-year-old pilot Wally Funk, who was previously denied the opportunity to go into space; And Oliver Daemon, 18, the son of the CEO of a Dutch investment firm whose ticket costs tens of millions of dollars. The teenager is a last-minute replacement for an unknown person who bought a $28 million ticket and can no longer stay due to “scheduling conflicts”. No word on what this guy is doing instead.

why? Just… why does any of this happen?

Because Jeff Bezos apparently hates Elon Musk, and he could. Blue Origin recently competed with SpaceX for more than $2.89 billion in taxpayer funding for NASA Artemis contracts to work on the lunar landing program. After the money went to SpaceX, Blue Origin got Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to pencil in up to $10 billion in additional NASA contracts for the science funding bill. (Its amendment has passed and is awaiting a vote in the House of Representatives. Bezos owns more than 20 times that amount of personal wealth, which is already earmarked for accumulating more wealth.)

SpaceX and Blue Origin brought the pissing contest to the Senate in dueling publications, with Blue Origin titled: “What’s Elon Musk Afraid of…The Little Competition?” That was the plan his whole life.

Wait, didn’t Richard Branson actually do this?

Sorta. Richard Branson’s flight into “space” on July 11 was actually to a spot three miles above NASA’s minimum space baseline of 50 miles above sea level, but below the Karman line. Two days before the flight, due to the lack of anything, Blue Origin tweeted that space is actually above the Karman Line, which is where the Blue Origin rockets go.

“From the beginning, New Shepard was designed to fly over the Kármán line, so none of our astronauts have an asterisk next to their name,” Blue Origin told the record. “For 96% of the world’s population, space begins at a height of 100 km at the internationally recognized Karmann Line.”

Is there a chance this could end badly for all passengers?

You might remember that Branson’s space plane crashed in 2014, killing one pilot, but that was during a new fuel test. New Shepard is likely to be as safe as expected after “15 successful consecutive missions,” as Blue Origin describes it. That’s a lot compared to NASA’s “huge moon rocket,” which NASA built with Boeing, and plans to put astronauts on board after just one uncrewed flight.

However, it is so “potentially safe” that pushing one into space on a 44 million horsepower engine that burns millions of pounds of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen is “probably safe”.

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