Whenever you’re about to fly into space, you want to move on to launch in style, that’s how those things work.
And that’s what Jeff Bezos and his team did on Tuesday as they headed for the Blue Origin rocket that took them into the area for a few minutes.
To get to the New Shepard launch ship, long-term area travelers first boarded a gravity electric vehicle manufactured through startup Rivian.
Amazon, which Bezos founded and chairs after recently resigning as CEO, has invested in Rivian and ordered 100,000 cars from the company for shipment.
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Rivian has developed several electric vehicles, adding the R1T pickup and the R1S SUV. Production and sales were scheduled to begin this summer, but were recently postponed until the end of this year.
“Rivian lent several pre-production R1T pickup trucks to the Blue Origin team with transportation on launch day,” Rivian spokeswoman Tanya Miller said Tuesday in an email.
Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, women’s attorney Mary Wallace “Wally” Funk and Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen showed up Tuesday morning, mindless for a few minutes before returning to earth.
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