Tue
Jul 20 2021
08:31 am
By: bizgrrl
Bezos is scheduled to take flight this morning, Tuesday, July 20, 2021.
Same-day delivery: Amazon's Jeff Bezos set to make history with suborbital spaceflight.
"Weather permitting, Bezos is scheduled to launch Tuesday at 9 a.m. ET from a site in the West Texas desert southeast of El Paso. Blue Origin will stream the event live on its website beginning at 7:30 a.m. ET."
Ms. "Wally Funk, 82, a former test pilot who was one of the Mercury 13 women who underwent training in the 1960s to demonstrate that women could qualify for NASA's astronaut corps. Funk would be the oldest person to reach space."
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