Jeff Bezos Interview Forward of Blue Origin Spaceflight: How to Watch

The world’s richest male Jeff Bezos states he is all set to blast off into area on Tuesday as his rocket company Blue Origin’s initially passenger.

“People continue to keep inquiring me if I am anxious. I am not seriously anxious. I am excited. I am curious,” Bezos said on “CBS This Morning” Monday. “We’ve been coaching, this vehicle is ready, this crew is prepared, this team is wonderful. We just really feel truly excellent about it.”

Bezos, 57, will be joined by his youthful brother, Mark Bezos, the American aviation pioneer Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen, a physics college student from the Netherlands whose father paid an undisclosed total for the trip by an on the internet auction. At 18, Daemen will be the youngest individual in house, when Funk, 82, will be the oldest man or woman ever to go to place.

The workforce will lift off in a New Shepard crew capsule atop a reusable New Shepard booster Tuesday early morning from Blue Origin’s start website in the remote desert of west Texas.

A stay broadcast of the launch will start off at 9 a.m. ET on Blue Origin’s site.

Tuesday’s mission will be Blue Origin’s 16th flight with the New Shepard rocket and the company’s very first flight with passengers on board. The spacecraft will fly the crew past the Kármán line (62 miles), the official boundary concerning Earth’s ambiance and outer space.

“I can’t wait to see what it is going to be like,” Bezos reported on NBC’s “TODAY” on Monday. “People say they go into area and they appear back again transformed. Astronauts normally speak about that, no matter whether it is the slim limb of the Earth’s environment and viewing how fragile the world is, that it is just a single world, so I simply cannot wait to see what it’s gonna do to me.”

Bezos introduced his spaceflight in June. He picked July 20 as the launch day to shell out homage to the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. But unexpectedly, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson conquer him as the initially billionaire to go to room with a suborbital flight in a VSS Unity spacecraft on July 11.

The next working day, on July 12, Blue Origin obtained the official approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly paying shoppers.

Bezos pressured that he’s not in a opposition with Branson or any other house entrepreneur. “There’s 1 individual who was the initially man or woman in space—his title was Yuri Gagarin—and that took place a extended time ago,” he explained on “TODAY.” “I assume I’m gonna be No. 570 or anything, that is wherever we’re gonna be in this listing. So this is not a level of competition, this is about making a road to room so that potential generations can do incredible points in space.”

Each Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic goal to supply professional flights to so-referred to as suborbital area, an area around in between 100 kilometers (62 miles) and 160 kilometers (100 miles) previously mentioned sea degree. There’s an ongoing debate about irrespective of whether suborbital room is really component of the outer room. The U.S. navy and NASA award astronaut wings to anyone flying over 80 km (50 miles), ^{while the U.S. State Department does not support a unique boundary between atmospheric flight and spaceflight.}

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket is built to arrive at an altitude of 62 miles. Virgin Galactic stops at 53.5 miles.