Billionaire Jeff Bezos, 57, has shared a photograph which shows him in his renowned fortunate boots. These boots are his footwear of option every single time Blue Origin – his human spaceflight startup – launches a space car. Blue Origin launched and landed the fourteenth test flight of its New Shepard rocket booster and capsule on Thursday, reports CNBC.
Jeff Bezos, who was not too long ago dethroned as the world’s richest particular person by Elon Musk, has spoken about his fortunate boots in the previous. During a chat with Shah Rukh Khan and Zoya Akhtar final year, he revealed he is a tiny superstitious and mentioned, “I have a pair of lucky boots and… these are Texas cowboy boots. I wear them. They’re giant… very flashy.”
This morning, he took to Instagram to share a image which shows him wearing these fortunate boots although stepping inside the New Shepard space car just after a “picture perfect landing”. Mr Bezos also revealed that he stamped and verified student postcards from about the globe that have been sent to space as element of Blue Origin’s non-profit ‘Club for Future’.
The initiative to launch postcards into space on a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket is made to inspire students to pursue a profession in STEM – Science, technologies, engineering, and mathematics. The postcards are returned to the sender with a ‘Flown to Space’ stamp.
Jeff Bezos’ Instagram post also characteristics some photographs of the postcards that have been flown to space.
The Instagram post has registered more than 1 lakh ‘likes’ and hundreds of comments considering the fact that getting posted a couple of hours ago.
According to a CNBC report, Blue Origin aims to carry the 1st passengers on its New Shepard space car as early as April. However, responding to a Reuters request for comment on the report, a enterprise spokesperson mentioned “this is rumor and speculative – not confirmed.”