Jeff Bezos' trip to space will be historic, because the Blue Origin flight will include both the youngest and oldest people to go to space.
Wally FunkFunk was part of the Mercury 13, a group of 13 American women who in the early 1960s underwent similar studies as NASA’s Mercury 7 astronauts to determine if they could handle space travel ... but they never launched.
If all goes according to plan, Wally will finally get there, and when she does she will break the age record set by, who returned to space in 1998 at the age of 77. Daemen will break the youth record set by the Soviet cosmonaut
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Oliver Daemen, 18, Releases Video Ahead of Blue Origin Flight With BezosOliver Daemen, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands, is set to be the youngest person to fly to space. He will fly with Jeff Bezos on Blue Origin's New Shepard v
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Amazon Chair Jeff Bezos donating $200 mln to SmithsonianAmazon.com Inc(AMZN.O) founder and Chair Jeff Bezos will donate $200 million to the Smithsonian Institution to boost its Air and Space museum and fund a new education center, the largest gift since the museum's founding in 1846.
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Bezos donates $200M to Smithsonian for Air and Space MuseumAmazon founder and soon-to-be-space traveler Jeff Bezos is donating $200 million to the Smithsonian Institution to boost its National Air and Space Museum, the largest gift received by the institution since its founding in 1846. The Smithsonian said $70 million of the money would support museum renovations. The other $130 million would go toward building a new education center at the museum called the Bezos Learning Center to inspire students to promote innovation and explore careers in science, math and engineering.
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