Jeff Bezos takes a tumble as he excitedly greets fiancée Lauren Sanchez after Blue Origin space flight
Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos face-planted onto the Texas desert as he ran up to greet his fiancée Lauren Sanchez and the all-female crew when they returned to Earth on Monday morning.
The livestream of the historic launch caught the moment Bezos, 61, fell face first to the ground as he went around the windows of the capsule carrying his fiancée.
Bezos, the world’s second richest man, greeted Sanchez at the door of the capsule after opening it following the 11-minute flight.
After celebrating with her future husband, Sanchez quickly turned to hug the rest of her family waiting for her at the landing site.Â
“I can’t put it into words. We got to see the Moon!â€?Sanchez said of the experience with tears in her eyes. “The Earth looked so quietâ€?I don’t think you could describe it.â€Â?/p>
Bezos, who flew on Blue Origin’s first space tourism mission, told Sanchez the experience would be life-changing and was thrilled for her to experience the same.Â
Sanchez flew into space with five other women, including pop-star Katy Perry, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.Â
The women flew about 62 miles above the Earth, just above the Karman Line designating outer space �where they caught sight of the void of space, the moon and the blue planet.
The voyage marks the first all-female space trip since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova‘s solo flight in 1963.
The mission is also the 11th human flight for the Bezos-owned rocket company’s New Shepard program.
Fellow billionaire and President Trump’s pick to run NASA Jared Isaacman, touted the successful launch on X.Â
“Congratulations to Blue Origin and the NS-31 crew. Opening this incredible frontier—from the few to the many—is the dream,â€?he wrote.Â
While Blue Origin does not publicly disclose the full price of its spaceflights, a seat on the first-ever crewed flight was auctioned off for $28 million.Â
