Flying aboard the New Shepard rocket will be 82-year-old aviator Wally Funk, best known for attempting to
A professional astronaut must meetstrict requirements for education, work experience and health status, so the age of astronauts usually ranges from 30 to 60 years. The oldest astronaut to reach space was John Glenn, who participated in the Mercury program. She was removed from the list of astronauts because women were not allowed to be astronauts or military pilots until the 1970s. At that time, selection to become an astronaut required military service.
Blue Origin received a license to launch people into space
Funk was personally invited by the founder of BlueOrigin Jeff Bezos. Bezos' brother Mark will be the third passenger, and the fourth seat was sold at auction. The amount of $28 million was proposed by an anonymous person who had to postpone the flight into space due to other plans.
Oliver Demaine graduated from high schooland enters the Department of Physics and Innovation at Utrecht University. Blue Origin also reported that Demaine has dreamed of becoming an astronaut since he was 4 years old and is already working on obtaining his pilot's license.
Demain is going to break the record set byGerman Titov. On August 6, 1961, Vostok 2 launched 25-year-old Titov, a military pilot who became the fourth man in space after Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom. Titov also became the first person to spend more than a day in space.
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