Gopi Thotakura, the first Indian tourist on board Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin’s NS-25 mission, held up the Indian flag in space as he made the historic feat.
Gopi Thotakura is the first Indian to go to space as a tourist aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin NS – 25 mission.
(X/@blueorigin)In a video shared on social media by Blue Origin, Thotakura, 30, first held up a banner which read "I am an eco-warrior for our sustainable planet".
The oldest space tourist on the Blue Origin flight was 90-year-old Ed Dwight, the first US Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s.
Blue Origin boss Jeff Bezos himself had flown to the edge of space in his space company's space tourist mission in 2021.Who is Gopi Thotakura?
Gopi Thotakura, the first Indian tourist on board Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin’s NS-25 mission, held up the Indian flag in space as he made the historic feat. Blue Origin on Sunday launched a six-person crew from West Texas to the edge of space as it restarted its much talked-about space tourism business for the first time since its suborbital rocket was grounded in 2022. Gopi Thotakura is the first Indian to go to space as a tourist aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin NS – 25 mission.(X/@blueorigin)
In a video shared on social media by Blue Origin, Thotakura, 30, first held up a banner which read "I am an eco-warrior for our sustainable planet".
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"India into space," he then said inside the spaceflight as he displayed a small Indian flag.
Watch the heartwarming moment in this video here:
The six space tourists can be seen expressing their excitement as they float inside the space ship and look out of the window to Earth below.
The capsule carrying the astronauts returned to Earth roughly 10 minutes after take-off.
The oldest space tourist on the Blue Origin flight was 90-year-old Ed Dwight, the first US Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s.
Blue Origin boss Jeff Bezos himself had flown to the edge of space in his space company's space tourist mission in 2021.
Who is Gopi Thotakura?
