Jeff Bezos took a famous actor into space: now he is the oldest who has been there

Голливудский актер Уильям Шетнер — капитан Кирк из легендарного сериала Star Trek («Звездный путь») — стал самым пожилым человеком, побывавшим в космосе. Он отправился в качестве члена экипажа суборбитального корабля New Shepard компании Blue Origin бизнесмена Джеффа Безоса. Об этом…

Musk bypassed Bezos in the list of the richest people in the world and made a tough joke on his rival

The head of Space X and Tesla Elon Musk bypassed Jeff Bezos in the list of the richest people in the world and sent the founder of Amazon a giant statue with the number 2 and a silver medal, reports Tjournal. On September 28, Elon Musk took first place in the ranking of the most ...

Technology is aging too, or how NASA retirees saved the Hubble telescope

Breathtaking images of galaxies, planets and constellations. In just 31 years there were more than one and a half million of them! And if it weren’t for former NASA employees, the Hubble telescope could have become history, DW reports. This story deserves to be filmed! Hubble Space Telescope, automatic observatory...

Elon Musk sent tourists to Earth orbit for three days: how they live in space

Elon Musk's company SpaceX has sent four "amateur astronauts" into orbit. They went into space in the Dragon capsule. This gave a new round of space tourism. The details of the event were shared by the BBC. This mission, following the recent flights of businessmen Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, will become ...

Elon Musk gave a personal tour of SpaceX for the descendants of the Soviet rocket designer

Elon Musk personally gave Sergei Korolev's family a tour of the SpaceX rocket plant, reports Tesmanian Sergei Korolev is a legendary Russian scientist, designer of rocket and space systems, who is considered a pioneer of the Soviet Union (USSR) in the field of manned space flight. SpaceX founder Elon Musk invited...

Ukraine and the United States jointly launched a rocket into space: it exploded after 2 minutes

The Alpha rocket from the Firefly company of Ukrainian businessman Max Polyakov was launched on its first ever orbital test flight from the Vandenberg space base in California at 21:59 New York time on September 3, Novoye Vremya reports. The launch took place almost an hour later ...

Made me give up the ticket: Ashton Kutcher was going to fly into space, but his wife did not allow

Ukrainian-born Hollywood actress Mila Kunis forced her husband Ashton Kutcher to return the ticket to space, which he acquired back in 2012 for $ 200. The edition "Focus" told in more detail. The actor could well have become one of the first space travelers. ...

Ukrainians are behind US space flights: how immigrants send Americans to the stars

When at the end of the last or the very beginning of this century, the whole world watched the flights of space shuttle-type spacecraft, few people knew that behind the success of the program, apart from others, was also a Ukrainian. This is stated in the video "Voice of America". Director of the orbital ...

Jeff Bezos flew into space: how it was

Today, July 20, at 09:00 (New York time), Amazon founder and richest man on the planet, Jeff Bezos, flew into space. The New Shepard rocket was launched from remote Van Horn, Texas with a slight delay. The flight, which lasted about 11 minutes, delivered passengers ...

Youngest, oldest, richest: Bezos' journey into space will set several records at once

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin has announced its first ticket purchaser. It turned out to be 18-year-old Dutchman Oliver Daemen. He will become the youngest person ever to be in space, writes NBC News. Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen joins Amazon founder, his brother ...

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