Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos flew to the edge of space Tuesday for the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
In a historic move, Bezos and an all-civilian crew boarded a rocket and capsule developed by his private spaceflight company, Blue Origin, in the first non-piloted, suborbital flight.
“Best day ever,” the billionaire entrepreneur said after successfully returning back to Earth, USA Today reported.
In true Twitter fashion, people took to the app to show their lack of enthusiasm for Bezos’ trip and clowned him for the rocket's uncanny resemblance.
Jeff Bezos is now in space. For no reason. This was a dick move. ????????????#Badumtss#ThisMightGetTakenDown#WorthIt
pic.twitter.com/ZY1vljReMv— Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker (@Luvvie) July 20, 2021
It would cost 25 billion to end hunger in the United States. Imagine having the money to end hunger in this country and not doing it.
Have fun on your dick trip, buddy. #BlueOrigin
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) July 20, 2021
there’s nothing jeff bezos did today that we couldn’t have done with a really big catapult
— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) July 20, 2021
Sure Jeff Bezos got shot into almost space on a dick rocket, but Mackenzie Scott donated $5.8B to the Covid crisis and $4.1B to schools for black, brown, and indigenous people. Jeff can stay in space. We got the one we need here already. We owe her.
— ????????Katie Porter’s WhiteBoard (@OhOEvie) July 20, 2021
Some even called for Amazon to be unionized along with a Change.org petition requesting that Bezos not return back to Earth.
Quick, someone unionize Amazon while Bezos is gone.
— Brian George (@HalifaxNinja) July 20, 2021
This petition to keep Jeff Bezos in space??? ???? pic.twitter.com/StMfBXWyMe
— bidi bidi bom boulash ☁️ (@rrrubenciito) July 20, 2021
Great for Jeff Bezos to use some of the $86 billion he made leeching off the fallout from the pandemic to send himself to space (taking advantage of his rocket company being given an exemption from lockdown policies), while 150 million back down on earth enter extreme poverty.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) July 20, 2021
Jeff Bezos has legit turned into Dr. Evil. pic.twitter.com/9EKPs3Hzys
— Wonx316 ???????? (@wonx316) July 20, 2021
How many Amazon workers are going to have to pee in a bottle today?
How many are going to have to go to a second job to put food on the table?
But hey, at least Jeff Bezos is almost going into space. lol
— Imani Gandy (@AngryBlackLady) July 20, 2021
How have we all missed that Jeff Bezos is actually just Dr. Evil from Austin Powers
— ???? mika ???? (@RIPmika) July 20, 2021
Last month, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters gathered to vote on a resolution to support Amazon workers, who have repeatedly voiced concerns over the company's working conditions, injury rates and physical demands of the job.
“The International Brotherhood of Teamsters recognizes that there is no clearer example of how America is failing the working class than Amazon,” according to a copy of the resolution obtained by CNBC. “From its start as a book retailer, Amazon has grown to become an e-commerce giant and has disrupted industry after industry and displaced hundreds of thousands of jobs.”
Bezos responded to critics of his trip into space earlier this week.
“Well, I say they are largely right. We have to do both," Bezos said in a CNN interview ahead of the journey, referencing the world's many urgent social crises. "We have lots of problems here on Earth and we have to work on those.”
Bezos went and returned from his 10-minute trip into outer space on Tuesday per BBC.
