The “first human space flight” has taken place on 20 July 2021 and it’s reported in a lot of news portals. I’m not sure why they call it the ‘first’ space flight as previously the first commercial flight into space was done by Richard Branson’s Virgin just a short while ago on 11 July 2021. On 20 July 2021, We saw Jeff Bezos, who’s well known for being the CEO of Amazon (and shall we saw “former CEO” because he has resigned) taking flight along with 3 other people in his rocket, Blue Origin.
According to an article in CBS News, “Bezos blasted off with his brother Mark and two history-making passengers: 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk, the oldest person to fly in space, and Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old Dutch student who is the youngest ever to fly in space. Funk, who was barred from NASA’s initially all-male astronaut corps in the 1960s, finally got her chance to prove the naysayers wrong, realizing a lifelong dream… “I want to thank you, sweetheart, because you made it possible for me,” she told Bezos. “I’ve been waiting a long time to finally get it up there… I loved it…” Awww, how sweet of Jeff Bezos to be open to bring a woman into this expedition, and an old woman in this case. Her dreams finally came through during this lifetime. At least it can be seen that we’re not living in the 1960s mindset anymore.
First of all, congratulations on the launching of Blue Origin and the safe flight as well landing of this rocket. The shape of the rocket, though, has surely garnered a lot of funny comments as it resembles a big dick. Weener. Schlong. Dingdong. Johny. Penis. Whatever you want to call it. A more polite version will be “male genitalia”. Sometimes I’m lazy to filter the words, what about being politically correct – this is not a formal setting also. Penis is the correct term to refer to that human body part, so what else are you going to call it? The people in Texas get to look up in the sky and see a dildo flying up.
The explanation of why they decided to create the rocket in that shape is furthered explained in an article in The Guardian. Apparently the rocket is made to look ‘anthropomorphic’ and this type of rocket is a New Shepard. The article states that “New Shepard consists of a mushroom-like crew capsule that flares out over a long shaft, called a booster. The rounded top appears more bulbous than that of many other rockets, but it’s not unique. There’s a long history of what we call hammerhead rockets, on which the capsule’s diameter is wider than the booster… it actually has perfectly fine aerodynamics.” When the rocket landed, it could be seen that the top part of the rocket (the dick head) was detached from the shaft. The top part had parachutes carrying it to a safe landing, slightly later than the landing of the shaft.
It’s unclear why some news agency reported it as the “first space flight” but it surely was the first commercial space flight in a penis-shaped rocket for mankind. We shall see who’s the next billionaire to launch their commercial flight shuttle.
