
Also, it’s a distraction from thinking about how Bezos and Richard Branson have somehow made space boring.

The more Austin Powers references in the world, the better. Bezos launch, while unbelievably memeworthy, made history Tuesday as the first unpiloted suborbital flight with an all-civilian crew. If that sounds like a juvenile way to spend the morning, first off, you’re wrong. People were not celebrating a cowboy-hat wearing billionaire taking a joy ride 60 miles into the sky, but they did enjoy making Austin Powers jokes about the phallic shape of the rocket ship. It was also the “best day ever” on Twitter. “Best day ever,” Bezos said when he returned to the ground. 8.5K views 1 year ago DrEvil Memes JeffBezos. The entire flight lasted roughly 10 minutes. Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, sent Good Morning America host Michael Strahan, the daughter of famed astronaut Alan Shepard, and four paying customers on a supersonic joy ride to the. The craft then descended under parachutes and landed again in the Texas desert. At an altitude of 250,000 feet, the capsule separated, taking Bezos and his crew to the edge of space. After liftoff, the New Shepard rocket accelerated toward space at three times the speed of sound.

Evils penis-shaped rocket in Austin Powers. ET Tuesday from a site in the west Texas desert southeast of El Paso. Within minutes of the launch, Twitter was comparing Blue Origin to Dr. It was the “first unpiloted suborbital flight with an all-civilian crew,” NBC News reports:īezos launched at around 9:11 a.m. Amazons Jeff Bezos, despite the identical hair. Bezos is like Dr Evil, but without that little spark of hope. The world’s richest man was joined by three other people, including his brother, Mark, and 82-year-old former-test pilot Wally Funk, who has a great name and an even better story. Jeff Bezos Penis-Shaped Rocket Launches Dr. Intriguingly, the watch Bezos is wearing is an Omega Speedmaster, which was the only watch certified for the original moon landings. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos achieved his lifelong dream of crushing all unions, I mean, heading into space on Tuesday morning aboard the Blue Origin rocket. Astronauts do it because they’re usually wearing gloves so they wear it on the outside so they can count the time in a space suit.
