VIACA - Wall Street Breakfast: The Final Frontier
Listen on the go! A daily podcast of Wall Street Breakfast will be available by 8:00 a.m. on Seeking Alpha, iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify. The Final FrontierJust 11 days after Richard Branson flew to space on Virgin Galactic's (NYSE:SPCE) spaceplane, Jeff Bezos will make his own attempt aboard Blue Origin's (BORGN) New Shepard rocket. He'll fly with a crew of three, including his older brother Mark, female aviation pioneer Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, a fill-in for the winner of a $28M charity auction. The passengers will experience a few minutes of weightlessness, before their capsule parachutes onto the desert just 10 minutes after liftoff, which is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. ET.Quote: “To see the Earth from space, it changes you. It changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity,” Bezos said before the flight. “It's a thing I've wanted to do all my life.”Backdrop: Bezos founded Blue Origin
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Wall Street Breakfast: The Final Frontier