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Elon Musk laughs at a meme about Jeff Bezos' upcoming space flight, making fun of him for only touching the edge of space
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- Elon Musk commented "haha" on a meme about Jeff Bezos' upcoming space flight.
- The meme mocked Bezos' flight because it will be sub-orbital — it will only touch the edge of space.
- Musk has had a long-running rivalry with Bezos as the pair both own space exploration companies.
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Elon Musk enjoyed a meme on Saturday poking fun at Jeff Bezos' upcoming flight to the edge of space.
Musk commented "haha" under a meme posted on Twitter about Bezos' flight. The meme shows Bezos talking to Musk about his flight, but with their faces superimposed onto Anakin Skywalker and Padme from "Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones" — a popular meme format.
The meme makes fun of the fact Jeff Bezos' flight will be sub-orbital, meaning it will only just touch the edge of space before coming back down to Earth, rather than going into orbit.
Bezos is scheduled to flyonboard New Shepard, a spacecraft made by his company Blue Origin, on July 20.
Bezos' flight is slated to fly just above the Kármán line, an imaginary line 62 miles above sea-level, which some use to define the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and space.
Bezos' flight should take roughly 11 minutes, during which Bezos and the other passengers will experience approximately three minutes of weightlessness. Travelling with Bezos will be his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old aviator Wally Funk, and 18-year-old physics student Oliver Daeman.
Read more: These 4 companies are leading the charge in 'space vacations' — from giant balloon flights to orbital hotels
Elon Musk has had a long-running rivalry with Bezos, as both billionaires own space exploration companies. Musk's company SpaceX has a stated goal of one day transporting human beings to Mars, and Musk has said he wants to help colonise the red planet.
Musk has previously called Bezos' Blue Origin a "copycat,"and made fun of the company's proposed lunar lander Blue Moon comparing it to "blue balls."
Recently, the two companies have clashed over a contract awarded to SpaceX by NASA in April, with Blue Origin lobbyingWashington to allow NASA to give out more money to another company.
Musk commented "haha" under a meme posted on Twitter about Bezos' flight. The meme shows Bezos talking to Musk about his flight, but with their faces superimposed onto Anakin Skywalker and Padme from "Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones" — a popular meme format.
The meme makes fun of the fact Jeff Bezos' flight will be sub-orbital, meaning it will only just touch the edge of space before coming back down to Earth, rather than going into orbit.
Bezos is scheduled to flyonboard New Shepard, a spacecraft made by his company Blue Origin, on July 20.
Bezos' flight is slated to fly just above the Kármán line, an imaginary line 62 miles above sea-level, which some use to define the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and space.
Bezos' flight should take roughly 11 minutes, during which Bezos and the other passengers will experience approximately three minutes of weightlessness. Travelling with Bezos will be his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old aviator Wally Funk, and 18-year-old physics student Oliver Daeman.
Read more: These 4 companies are leading the charge in 'space vacations' — from giant balloon flights to orbital hotels
Elon Musk has had a long-running rivalry with Bezos, as both billionaires own space exploration companies. Musk's company SpaceX has a stated goal of one day transporting human beings to Mars, and Musk has said he wants to help colonise the red planet.
Musk has previously called Bezos' Blue Origin a "copycat,"and made fun of the company's proposed lunar lander Blue Moon comparing it to "blue balls."
Recently, the two companies have clashed over a contract awarded to SpaceX by NASA in April, with Blue Origin lobbyingWashington to allow NASA to give out more money to another company.
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Blue Origin, though, offers the biggest windows ever built for a spacecraft.
Blue Origin, though, offers the biggest windows ever built for a spacecraft.
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Bezos did a round of televised interviews ahead of the launch
HIGHLIGHTS
The world's richest person and three crewmates are due to fly from a desert site in West Texas on an 11-minute trip to the edge of space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard, a 60-foot-tall (18.3 metres) and fully autonomous rocket-and-capsule combo. The flight represents an important milestone in the establishment of the space tourism industry.
Bezos did a round of televised interviews ahead of the launch, set for around 8am CDT (6:30pm IST) from Blue Origin's Launch Site One facility some 20 miles (32km) outside the rural Texas town of Van Horn.
"People keep asking if I'm nervous. I'm not really nervous, I'm excited. I'm curious. I want to know what we're going to learn," Bezos, founder of Amazon, told the "CBS This Morning" programme.
"We've been training. This vehicle is ready. This crew is ready. This team is amazing," Bezos said. "We just feel really good about it."
Bezos and his brother Mark Bezos will be joined in the all-civilian crew by 82-year-old pioneering female aviator Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, a recent high school graduate set to attend the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands to study physics and innovation management in September.
Jeff Bezos Girds for Blue Origin's Inaugural Space Flight, Says ‘Not Really Nervous’
"We've been training. This vehicle is ready. This crew is ready. This team is amazing," Bezos said.
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Bezos did a round of televised interviews ahead of the launch
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- Bezos and his brother Mark Bezos will be joined in the all-civilian crew
- 82-year-old pioneering female aviator Wally Funk is a part of the crew
- Daemen is the company's first paying customer
The world's richest person and three crewmates are due to fly from a desert site in West Texas on an 11-minute trip to the edge of space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard, a 60-foot-tall (18.3 metres) and fully autonomous rocket-and-capsule combo. The flight represents an important milestone in the establishment of the space tourism industry.
Bezos did a round of televised interviews ahead of the launch, set for around 8am CDT (6:30pm IST) from Blue Origin's Launch Site One facility some 20 miles (32km) outside the rural Texas town of Van Horn.
"People keep asking if I'm nervous. I'm not really nervous, I'm excited. I'm curious. I want to know what we're going to learn," Bezos, founder of Amazon, told the "CBS This Morning" programme.
"We've been training. This vehicle is ready. This crew is ready. This team is amazing," Bezos said. "We just feel really good about it."
Bezos and his brother Mark Bezos will be joined in the all-civilian crew by 82-year-old pioneering female aviator Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, a recent high school graduate set to attend the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands to study physics and innovation management in September.
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Daemen is the company's first paying customer. His father heads investment management firm Somerset Capital Partners.
The flight comes nine days after rival Richard Branson, the British billionaire businessman, was aboard his company Virgin Galactic's rocket plane for its pioneering suborbital flight from New Mexico.
Bezos sought to downplay any rivalry with Branson.
"There's one person who was the first person in space. His name was Yuri Gagarin. And that happened a long time ago," Bezos said on the NBC's programme "Today," referring to the Soviet cosmonaut who reached space in 1961.
"I think I'm going to be number 570 or something. That's where we're going to be in this list. So this isn't a competition. This is about building a road to space so that future generations can do incredible things in space," Bezos said.
Funk was one of the so-called Mercury 13 group of women who trained to become astronauts for the first US human spaceflight program in the early 1960s. She passed the same rigorous testing as the Mercury Seven male astronauts in NASA's space programme, though the women were denied the chance to become astronauts because of their gender.
"Back when Wally was part of the Mercury 13, all the testing that she did, she outperformed all of the men," Bezos said on "Today." "And we can confirm at 82 years old, she can still outperform all of the men. We've been doing the training with Wally. She can outrun all of us."
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The flight comes nine days after rival Richard Branson, the British billionaire businessman, was aboard his company Virgin Galactic's rocket plane for its pioneering suborbital flight from New Mexico.
Bezos sought to downplay any rivalry with Branson.
"There's one person who was the first person in space. His name was Yuri Gagarin. And that happened a long time ago," Bezos said on the NBC's programme "Today," referring to the Soviet cosmonaut who reached space in 1961.
"I think I'm going to be number 570 or something. That's where we're going to be in this list. So this isn't a competition. This is about building a road to space so that future generations can do incredible things in space," Bezos said.
Funk was one of the so-called Mercury 13 group of women who trained to become astronauts for the first US human spaceflight program in the early 1960s. She passed the same rigorous testing as the Mercury Seven male astronauts in NASA's space programme, though the women were denied the chance to become astronauts because of their gender.
"Back when Wally was part of the Mercury 13, all the testing that she did, she outperformed all of the men," Bezos said on "Today." "And we can confirm at 82 years old, she can still outperform all of the men. We've been doing the training with Wally. She can outrun all of us."
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