The crew received two days of safety training, but nothing very hard, said Daemen, who can be seen in a video of the trip tossing ping-pong balls in weightlessness with Jeff Bezos. “It was my ultimate, ultimate goal … but I never thought it was going to be this soon.”
“I don’t think I realized it until I was in the rocket: ‘Wow, it’s really happening’,” he said. “They called and said: Are you still interested?’ and we were like ‘Yes! Yes! Yes!’”ĭaemen (left) said Jeff Bezos (right) told him it had been a long time since someone had said they’d never purchased from his ubiquitous e-commerce giant Amazon. “And he was like, ‘Oh, wow, it’s a long time ago I heard someone say that’.”ĭaemen, who was picked after another candidate bidding $28 million for the ride canceled at the last minute, found out he would be joining the flight while on a family holiday in Italy. “I told Jeff, like, I’ve actually never bought something from Amazon,” Daemen told Reuters in an interview on Friday at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old physics student, accompanied Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos and 82-year-old female aviator Wally Funk – the oldest person to go to space – on a 10-minute trip beyond Earth’s atmosphere.īezos funded exploration company Blue Origin by selling billions of dollars’ worth of stock in his online delivery business Amazon. The Dutch teenager who became the world’s youngest space traveler this week surprised billionaire Jeff Bezos on the flight by telling him he’d never ordered anything on Amazon.
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