The more Austin Powers references in the world, the better.

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. The entire flight lasted roughly 10 minutes. The craft then descended under parachutes and landed again in the Texas desert. Yes, that means that you can now have a small (1/66 in size) version of the dick-shaped rocket that launched a thousand memes on your desk. 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. ET Tuesday from a site in the west Texas desert southeast of El Paso.

It was the “first unpiloted suborbital flight with an all-civilian crew,” NBC News reports:īezos launched at around 9:11 a.m. 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. The rocket reached speeds of Mach 3 and an altitude of 307,000 feet before safely landing, the company wrote in a blog post. 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. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, successfully launched the New Shepard spaceship on Wednesday, bringing the company one step closer to commercial space flight.

Dick shape rocket