Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket launches thousands of student letters into space

Sev­er­al thou­sand stu­dents’ post­cards took a jour­ney to aboard Blue Orig­in’s New Shep­ard reusable rock­et.

A video post­ed on Twit­ter by Blue Ori­gin founder Jeff Bezos shows the Ama­zon CEO read­ing post­cards stu­dents all over the world sent to be part of the 11-minute unmanned sub­or­bital space mis­sion.

He then stamped them, ver­i­fy­ing for the stu­dents that their let­ters had com­plet­ed the voy­age.

“This card has been in space. On it, the plan­ets my love of the unknown. They are all dif­fer­ent and they rep­re­sent the uni­verse,” Bezos read aloud.

Also includ­ed in the New Shep­ard pay­load man­i­fest were the two win­ning projects of the Art in Space , accord­ing to Blue Ori­gin. Blue Ori­gin part­nered with rock band OK Go ear­li­er this for the com­pe­ti­tion giv­ing mid­dle and high school stu­dents the to send their art­work to space, the com­pa­ny said.

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The New Shep­ard rock­et is named after Amer­i­ca’s first man in space Mer­cury astro­naut Alan Shep­ard, accord­ing to Blue Ori­gin. The 60-foot rock­et is intend­ed to bring six space trav­el­ers in the space­craft’s cap­sule past the Kar­man line, rough­ly 62 miles above the sur­face of the Earth.

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Blue Ori­gin aims to use its reusable rock­ets to low­er the of space trav­el, “pro­vid­ing safe, and fre­quent access to space,” accord­ing to the com­pa­ny.

The com­pa­ny claims to “the largest win­dows in space,” intend­ed to pro­vide astro­nauts with “incred­i­ble views.”

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