{"id":230224,"date":"2021-07-20T08:13:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T13:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=230224"},"modified":"2021-07-20T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:09:21","slug":"bezos-and-crew-into-space-tues-a-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=230224","title":{"rendered":"Bezos and crew rocket into space Tues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BezoLiftoff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-230231\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BezoLiftoff-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BezoLiftoff-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BezoLiftoff-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BezoLiftoff.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>VAN HORN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jeff Bezos has blasted into space on his rocket company\u2019s first flight with passengers. He\u2019s the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft. The Amazon founder rode to space with a hand-picked group and their Blue Origin capsule landed 10 minutes later on the desert floor in West Texas. The passengers include Bezos\u2019 younger brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from the Dallas area. They\u2019re the youngest and oldest to ever hurtle off the planet. Named after America\u2019s first astronaut, the New Shepard rocket soared on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier<\/p>\n<p>VAN HORN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jeff Bezos has blasted off on his space company\u2019s first flight with people on board. He\u2019s the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own rocket. The Amazon founder soared to space Tuesday with a hand-picked group. Passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule include Bezos\u2019 younger brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer from Texas. They\u2019re the youngest and oldest to ever hurtle off the planet. Named after America\u2019s first astronaut Alan Shepard, the rocket soared from West Texas on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The up-and-down flight was expected to last just 10 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VAN HORN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jeff Bezos has blasted into space on his rocket company\u2019s first flight with passengers. He\u2019s the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft. The Amazon founder rode to space with a hand-picked group and their Blue Origin capsule landed 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230246,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230224\/revisions\/230246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}