Jeff Bezos' girlfriend Lauren Sanchez kisses him after launch into space
Jeff Bezos' girlfriend Lauren Sanchez dropped a kiss on his handsome billionaire moments after he safely returned to Earth this morning after his successful space launch.
The 51-year-old was spotted kissing and hugging his founding Amazon boyfriend shortly after leaving the capsule in Texas on Tuesday morning.
Bezos could be seen hugging his mother Jacklyn immediately after stepping out of the pod before turning to his girlfriend.
Sanchez, who wore a $ 2,600 Oscar de la Renta white mini dress and cowboy boots, took off his hat to hug Bezos.
She went on to congratulate the others, including Bezos' brother Mark, teenager Oliver Daemen, who became the youngest person in space, and former NASA intern Wally Funk, who became the oldest. .
Bezos' children, whom he shares with his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott, were also there to welcome their father again.
Lauren Sanchez was spotted hugging and kissing her founding Amazon boyfriend, Jeff Bezos, shortly after leaving the capsule in Texas on Tuesday morning.
Sanchez, who wore a white dress and cowboy boots, was the second person Bezos kissed after the near space mission
“Best day ever,” Bezos said immediately after the capsule hit the desert floor at the end of the 10-minute flight.
“It was amazing, it was amazing. "
Champagne flowed freely as the crew left the capsule after being removed by the ground crew at Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin.
Bezos stepped out of the capsule with his cowboy hat on.
It was a mission of firsts with Jeff Bezos becoming the richest man to ever go to space, Funk becoming the oldest and Oliver becoming the youngest astronaut to date.
His New Shepard rocket took off from distant Texas on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a date chosen by Bezos specifically for its historical significance.
The 51-year-old took off her hat to kiss Bezos after returning to Texas on Tuesday
Sanchez then congratulated the others, including Bezos' brother Mark, teenager Oliver Daemen, who became the youngest in space, and former NASA intern Wally Funk, who became the oldest.
Bezos could be seen hugging his mother Jacklyn (above) when he first came out of the capsule before turning to his girlfriend
He kept the date even after Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson put on his own flight, which meant beating Bezos within nine days.
He stuck to it, even as Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson pushed his own flight from New Mexico into the race for space tourism dollars and beat him within nine days.
Unlike Branson's piloted rocket plane, Bezos' capsule was automated and required no official personnel on board for the top-to-bottom flight.
Sir Richard Branson tweeted his congratulations to the other astronauts after their return to Earth.
Blue Origin reached an altitude of about 66 miles, more than 10 miles higher than Branson's ride on July 11.
The 60-foot booster accelerated to Mach 3 or three times the speed of sound to bring the capsule high enough, before breaking apart and landing upright.
Passengers were given several minutes of weightlessness to float around the spacious white capsule before returning to Earth.
“It was amazing, it was amazing,” Bezos shouted into the capsule, adding that “I was surprised how easy, remarkably natural zero g was”, with Mark saying it was “like swimming "
“Hello astronauts and welcome aboard the RSS First Steps” was the first message heard by Capcom after the four astronauts were strapped to their five-point harnesses in the capsule.
The crew surrendered to the rocket approximately 45 minutes before launch, entering a capsule 10 times the size of the one Alan Shepard used to become the first American in space.
