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Dutch Teen Who Went to Space With Jeff Bezos Told Him He’s Never Bought Anything on Amazon
The award for “Best Small Talk on a Flight to Space” goes to Oliver Daemen, the 18-year-old from the Netherlands who was part of Blue Origin’s inaugural crewed flight to space earlier this week. On the roughly 10-minute flight, Daemon told Amazon founder Jeff Bezos what probably sounded like blasphemy to his billionaire ears: He…
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A Mysterious Bidder Just Paid $36 Million to Fly to Space With Jeff Bezos on July 20
Someone with deep pockets just shelled out $US28 ($36) million to fly to space with Jeff Bezos, the richest man on Earth, on Blue Origin’s first crewed flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle. Unfortunately, we don’t yet know who the mystery bidder is, although Blue Origin promises we’ll find out in a few weeks.