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Jeff Bezos’s journey to space and back – In pics
The space travellers
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from Texas, the youngest and oldest to ever fly in space. Bezos became the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard
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The fully autonomous 60-foot-tall New Shepard spacecraft, lifted off from Blue Origin’s launch facility about 32 km outside the rural town of Van Horn.
The legacy of Apollo
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Named after America's first astronaut, the New Shepard rocket went into space on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
The landing
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After the capsule separated from the booster, the crew unbuckled for a few minutes of weightlessness. The capsule then returned to Earth under parachutes, using a retro-thrust system that expelled a "pillow of air" for a soft landing.
'Best day ever'
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"Best day ever," Bezos said after the space capsule touched down.
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