Matt Davies for June 08, 2021

it says let him spend it anyway he wants and if he wants to be the first guinea pig in his rocket ship let him be that

Imagine if Elon Musk joined the next crew for SpaceX to compete with Jeff Bezos.

A dangerous game. The dude has too much money, he needs to be taxed.

Why am I paying more in taxes than he is?

You do not “own” any congress members.

Good for him. I wish it was me going up there. He can keep his money. I want to experience Earth orbit just once before I die. And should dying going into, while in, or descending from, orbit happens — I have a head start on most everybody else being recycled into the Cosmos!

Yeah, he’s got enough bags of money to pile up to get him into outer space without a rocket launcher. His wealth is obscene.

I dunno. Yup it’s an ego fest. OTOH I read Heinlein’s “The Man Who Sold the Moon” when I was 10 and haven’t forgotten it.

Instead of spending billions flying to space how about paying your fair of taxes you jerk

Make it a one-way ticket , please.

So…..if he goes up…..does he HAFTA come down? :-)

A repost:

Jeff Bezos has already selected a hobby for his post-CEO life: space travel.

Just two weeks after he steps down as CEO of Amazon, Bezos will climb aboard a rocket made by his space exploration company Blue Origin.

Blue Origin’s rocket is called New Shepard, and it’s reusable – the idea being that reusing rockets will lower the cost of going to space and make it more accessible. The pressurized capsule has space for six passengers. There are no pilots.

This will be the first time a crew will be aboard the New Shepard, in a capsule attached to the rocket.

And it won’t just be Bezos: He invited his brother Mark, too.

Want to join the Bezos brothers?

You can bid on a seat on the flight in an auction that benefits Blue Origin’s foundation, which has the mission of inspiring future generations to pursue careers in STEM. The current high bid is $2.8 million.

The flight is scheduled for July 20 — the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Bezos gives up his CEO title on July 5, when he’ll pass the reins to Andy Jassy, who currently leads Amazon’s cloud computing division.

Technically, the Karman line is the altitude at which space begins – about 62 miles above sea level.

But Bezos won’t be above that line for long. The flight is expected to last about 11 minutes, and only a small portion of that time is above the Karman line, according to a graphic of the flight trajectory on Blue Origin’s website.

The New Shepard’s journey is called suborbital flight, meaning the rocket isn’t powerful enough to enter Earth’s orbit.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew Dragon now regularly carries astronauts to and from the International Space Station. And in May, a test flight by Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic reached an altitude of 55 miles, marking its third human spaceflight.

But neither Musk nor Branson has traveled to space yet in their companies’ aircrafts.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/07/1003924158/jeff-bezos-is-going-to-space-for-a-few-minutes

Does anyone suspect Jeff Bezos is trying to emulate the role John Hurt played as billionaire entrepreneur S.R. Hadden in the movie, “Contact”? He surely resembles that character, with the bald head and sly manner.

And so … Will Bezos ever return from his space voyage, or somehow arrange to stay up there in order to remotely manage business and incidentally extend his life span?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/characters/nm0000457?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t40

I trust he has all his billions in order and an unbreakable will.

A dangerous game indeed, I wish he’d put his money into a portable fusion reactor to take us to Mars in weeks instead of months.

the right stiff as in stiffing the government of TAXES

I will pay his taxes if he will pay mine.